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Art Ablaze Pyrotechnics and pure self-expression at Burning Man One hundred miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years. Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of each summer, when a temporary city rises out of the barren clay. This is the surreal and amazing site of Burning Man. Baked by the sun, and blinded by dust, the gathering acquires different meanings for different people: temporary community, spiritual adventure, performance stage, desert rave, social experiment. It's also the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made: a mechanized fire-breathing octopus, a towering wooden temple 15 meters tall, and the eponymous Man himself -- a skeletal sculpture set ablaze at the event's conclusion.
About the Author
Writer. Photographer. Canadian.
My most recent book is Art of Burning Man, published by respected art book publisher Taschen. It's a 16 year retrospective on the incredible site-specific outdoor installations of the Burning Man art festival, and features my writing and photography.
For more information including links to reviews and sample pages, check out:
http://theartofburningman.com
My public website is http://photonotes.org, and it's where I post interesting updates and the like. Thanks for your interest in my work!
