METAMORPHOSES BURNING MANSelf-Guided 2019Art Tour

Black Rock City Art & Locations location location 1 Awful's Gas & Snack...... 12:15 7000' 50 Pieuvre ...... 7:11 1370' 2 elevation...... 12:10 6000' 51 Mariposita...... 7:15 1100' 3 Desert WAVE...... 12:20 5700' 52 La Métamorphose des Animaux Extraordinaires...... 7:04 935' 4 Metamorphatoad...... 12:15 5500' 53 The Bard's Branch...... 7:35 870'

5 The Shrine of Sympathetic Resonance...... 12:00 5300' 6:00 - 9:00 54 Critonium Clock...... 7:35 1400' 6 Expansion Pavilion...... 12:12 4810' 55 Portal...... 7:30 1700' 7 The Folly...... 12:38 5000' 56 Carousel Zarya...... 7:20 2100' 8 Night Light Tree...... 12:53 5200' 57 Cone Down...... 7:40 2145' 9 Sagrada Perihelia...... 1:00 4600' 58 I.L.Y...... 7:50 1900' 10 Chakra Cannon...... 12:45 4200' 59 Welcome Home...... 8:16 1498' 11 Stone 27...... 12:22 4000' 60 Fascination...... 8:45 850' 12:01 - 3:00 12 The Towers of Crete...... 12:00 4100' 61 Plaza of Introspectus...... 8:50 1200' 13 Transmutation...... 12:08 3600' 62 Cathenge...... 9:09 1800' 14 Windchest...... 12:33 3533' 63 Penguin Colony...... 9:00 3200' 15 The Phoenix and The Butterfly...... 12:20 3390' 64 The Man's Army...... 10:00 1500' 16 Mega Mega...... 12:57 3565' 65 Circus Fabulae...... 10:30 1000' 17 Head Maze...... 1:15 3900' 66 Theophany...... 11:42 1000' 18 Wing Portal...... 1:41 4565' 67 Bee Dance...... 11:55 1280' 19 Tulpa Ashrams...... 1:41 3805' 68 Purr Pods...... 10:53 1540' 20 Paraluna...... 12:45 2700' 69 Bee Divine Hive Temple...... 11:15 1600' 21 Puzzles and Prayers...... 12:36 2280' 70 Taking Flight...... 11:38 1775' 22 Temple of Direction: The 2019 Temple...... 12:00 2500' 71 Chapel Perilous...... 10:45 2000' 23 The Ovule...... 12:05 1670' 9:00 - 12:00 72 corpus...... 11:22 2045' 24 The Flybrary...... 12:45 1600' 73 Syzygy ...... 11:19 2360' 25 Serenity...... 1:15 2000' 74 Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale...... 10:08 3400' 26 Fucking Useless...... 12:55 905' 75 Sabbatical...... 11:23 2775' 27 The Intersection X...... 1:25 1235' 76 Fragments, 2019...... 11:50 3300' 28 Phoenix Rising...... 1:45 1700' 77 Sputnik Theremin ...... 11:28 3465' 29 Niloticus...... 2:05 1420' 78 Diver UP...... 8:50 2000' 30 Archaeopteryx...... 2:30 1000' 79 Nirmanakaya...... 11:15 3900' 31 O NOME DA ROSA ...... 2:52 1900' 80 Elephantes: Hommage au Dali...... 11:35 3700' 32 Quality of Life...... 3:06 2100' 81 The Dollhouse ...... 11:20 4400' 33 The Beat Box...... 3:03 1550' 82 Reared In Steel's Fire Kethedral...... 11:45 4740' 3:00- 6:00 34 Toxic Unicorn...... 3:05 1225' 83 The Heads ...... 11:20 5100' 35 Cloud Swing / Cloud Swing Storm...... 3:45 1200' 84 Happy Birthday! (MEGA CAKE)...... 11:41 5550' 36 No Place Like Home...... 3:30 1700'

37 The Monumental Mammoth...... 4:00 1400' Art Speaks ARTery/ Everywhere Pavilion, 6:30 & Esplanade 38 Giant Pinball Machine ...... 4:28 1200' Meet the artists who bring large-scale art to Burning Man. Hear the 39 Chapel of the Chimes...... 4:15 1800' stories, and learn the materials and technologies they employed. Ask questions and gain a deeper appreciation of the art. 40 Flow Nexus...... 4:40 2200' • Taking Flight (Nicki Adani) 41 Bounce Back...... 4:37 1500' Wednesday • Mariposita (Chris Carnabuci) 42 Internal Exposure...... 5:48 1010' August 28 2:00 - 3:00 • The Folly (Dave Keane) 43 Cosmo...... 5:55 1515' • The Flybrary (Christina Sporrong) 44 Wings of Glory...... 6:00 Keyhole Thursday August, 29 • Portal (David Oliver and Art City Monsters) 45 El Diabla...... 6:00 Keyhole 2:00 - 3:30 • Fascination (Joe Culpepper) Bottled Up Genie...... 6:20 1700' 46 Friday • Plaza of Introspectus (Kay Morrison & Tabasco Mills) 47 Fan Coral...... 6:13 1200' August 30 • Monumental Mammoth (Tahoe Mack & Dana Albany) 2:00 - 3:30 • Expansion Pavilion (Shrine ) 48 Bee or Not to Bee...... 6:05 945' 49 The Wheels of Zoroaster Resurrection...... 6:52 1800' = Audio Tour = Art Speaks Artist

1 Metamorphoses tThehe M Maann P Baavilionse At the center of the city is the one “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit” artwork created by Burning Man (Everything changes, nothing perishes) Project: the Man itself. Over the - Ovid, Metamorphoses years, Larry Harvey would guide the shaping of the Man and the “Energy can be transformed from one form to outward expression of the theme. With the loss of Larry, a small another, but can be neither created nor destroyed.” group of creatives to were invited to -1st Law of Thermodynamics share their vision of the Man base.

"This year’s theme is a celebration of change, and an exploration Conceived by Yelena Filipchuk of uncertainty. As such it invites a consideration of time; not its and Serge Beaulieu, the 2019 Man circular nature, or its attendant ritual, but in this case the relentless emerges from a cocoon accessed by a winding, ascending walkway, lit at flight of time’s arrow, and an embrace of the elusive now. Memory night from within, throwing patterned light across the playa. is fickle, and the future is uncertain. None of us knows what they will become, but we can seek to understand where we are at this The Centerpiece was designed and created by David Best. Sit point in our transformative trajectory, this fleeting chord on the and take in the creative vision of small vignettes that reflect the strings of existence... metamorphoses of a variety of insects, capped by an abstracted sense of plant life that emerges from the center.

Alchemists have long sought to master the art of metamorphosis On the 12 o’clock side of the Man, artist Kelly Smith Cassidy created through esoteric means, transmuting base metals to gold and E Pluribus Unum: Out of One, Many, which invites seating, socializing, breathing life into the inanimate, thereby hoping to achieve and people-watching. transcendence over the material world and challenge the On the 3 o’clock side, artist Benjamin Rowe is installing Small dominion of gods and kings. This year’s theme is an invitation Community Shelters, which has delightful moments of canopy and to explore new forms of alchemy, reliant not on some elusive shade designed for hanging out and taking in the view. Philosopher’s Stone but on the limitless powers of the heart." Finally, on the 9 o’clock side, the Man Pavilion Build Crew added - Darryl Van Rhey their contribution to the center of Black Rock City.

Aerial Artists: 26 artists — some troupes, some small Honorarium Art ensembles, and several soloists will perform at the Man Pavilion. Each day, Monday through Friday, at 10am and 10pm for one hour there will be incredible artistry, explorative performances and interesting Every year Burning Man Arts issues a number of new apparati suspended from beneath the legs of the Man base. grants for the purpose of partially funding specific Air Skating, by Air Skating - New York City, NY • Chrysalis, by art projects. Referred to as Honorarium Art, Burning Kerri Jonquil, Amaya Alvarado & Paulina Muñoz - Portland, OR • Cyclical Beauty, by Jesse & Melissa Chapman - Pérez Zeledón, San Man allocates a percentage of its revenue from ticket Jose, Costa Rica • Cyclical Stability, by Spiral Cycles - New York sales to fund selected art projects that are collab- City, NY • Drag King Show Grrrl, by Emma Cat - London, England • Eda Begadix Floats, by Salty Sand - Olympia, WA • Emergent orative, community-oriented and interactive. This Consonance, A Zel&Coz Production - Toronto, Canada •Eudæmonia, supports the Burning Man art community and facili- by Hybrid Movement Company - Brooklyn, NY •Grace Good Cirque, by Grace Good - Nashville, TN •Grow Towards the Light, by Sarah tates the creation of outstanding art for Black Rock Patrinellis - Portland, OR & The Big Island, HI •Healer Heal Thyself, by Destination Desolation - Eugene OR, Portland OR, Corvallis OR, City. The vast majority of art installations on the playa, and Oakland CA • Inner Compass>>>Tranzformation, by $hredder however, are not funded. Beyond the playa, Burning and the Crystal Queer$ - Oakland, CA • Inner Core by Capacitor – choreographed & designed by Jodi Lomask, performed by Jodi Man Arts supports the creation of art throughout the Lomask, Dacia Biletnikoff, Oscar Trujillo, Shannon Gray Collier, and Micah Walters - San Francisco, CA • Lepidoptera, performed by year. P. Canadensis and directed by Bryan Saunders - Edmonton, Canada • Life of A Butterfly, by FIREnICE - Orange County, CA• Reflect / React, by Zel Tyrant - Toronto, Canada •Revolution: The Art of Rising Up, by Brynne Campbell - Gilbert, Arizona •Rite of the Valkyries, by Girlcott - Seattle, WA • Sahasrara, by Three Queens Circus - Celebrate the Small Phoenix, AZ • Shedding Shadows, by Em Zuckerman & Artists - Paris, France and San Francisco, CA • Take Me Home, presented by Within each city block, there lie untold possibilities of Kirkasomania and Yael Deckelbaum - Tel Aviv, Israel • TeeBeeDee, weird, wonderful, and unique experiences, big and small. by Vau de Vire Society - Bay Area, CA, • The Chrysalis, performed by Vix Nolan - San Francisco, CA, • The Dahlias Transformation, You already know where to find the big, but don’t forget to by The Dahlias - San Francisco, CA, • Through Thick & Thin, get off the beaten path. There’s no telling what you’ll find performed by Skytopia & Friends and directed by Sierra Camille - Sonoma County & Bay Area, CA, • Unlimited, by Jem Alvarado - and what magical stories you’ll return with! San Francisco, CA •We Rise, by Reno Aerial Co-Op - Reno, NV, USA

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1 Awful's Gas & Snack 8 Night Light Tree 14 Windchest Matthew Gerring & Crank Factory Kat Smith and Tickle Me Happy Tyson Ayers and Resonant Arts | Boston, MA | San Francisco, CA Los Angeles, CA Softly lit monolithic columns rise and fall out Your Gateway to the Big Wild! See one of the few The Night Light Tree shines brightly during the day, of the desert creating an interactive landscape. remaining gas stations, painstakingly preserved reflecting the sun's rays across the playa. Composed Reminiscent of a pipe organ, Windchest integrates since the mid-21st century. Travel back to a time of bronze wires, the tree’s branches twist up and out light with music. Activate by jumping on nearby when hardy men roamed the "open road" seeking of a 7 foot tall gemstone base. At night, the base turns LED-lit pads that compress like bellows. Combat fortune & freedom. Wilderness passes & provisions into 7 infinity boxes containing lights, gemstones, cultural isolation through group curated play. available. NO GAS FOR PURCHASE, DON'T ASK. and tree roots. 15 The Phoenix and The Butterfly: A 2 Elevation 9 Sagrada Perihelia story of metamorphosis Michael Christian | Berkeley, CA Brandon Harvey | Los Angeles, CA Swig Miller | Topanga, CA Towering tube steel ladder structure with plush seat A radial arrangement of weather balloons -- a A flaming Phoenix flying high in the night sky faces for one at its peak. Originally at BM 2008. compass rose. An eight-legged kraken straining to its partner, a beautiful glowing Butterfly. Twenty- drift in the sea of the sky. The billowing skeleton of five-foot pyramids made of spheres connect you and 3 Desert WAVE a circus tent: a remnant of celebrations, spectacles a staircase invites you to share their view. This piece and revels that lie in the past; a pencil sketch of is about the metamorphosis of the feminine and the Squidsoup | Yanworth, Gloucestershire, UK togetherness to come. Beneath the central balloon, masculine, demonstrated by a butterfly born from a An 80 foot long wave breaks deep in the desert a small camera points down to observe people’s caterpillar and a phoenix born in fire. - a reminder of the playa's origins. Made from behavior. 650 points of light and sound frozen in time, the 16 Mega Mega WAVE transforms into a highly immersive shared 10 Chakra Cannon audiovisual experience. Kevin Bourque | Los Angeles, CA Joshua Pipic | Oakland, CA MEGA MEGA IS A MAGICAL FUNDERLAND. A 4 Metamorphatoad A large-scale "Light Cannon" controlled by the FANTASTICAL ENVIRONMENT FILLED WITH human voice. When participants collaborate, a POSSIBILITY. EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED! Taylor Trinket | South Lake Tahoe, CA custom designed 3000 watt LED spotlight generate DISCOVER ITS SECRETS! Is a construction site just as Capture the essence of 'toad medicine’ in a giant a super bright beam of light blasting into the sky. or even MORE artistic than an amusement park? Is toad! Bones of steel bar, welded geometrically and The Chakra Cannon uses light as a metaphor to something under construction still considered art sculpted. Metamorphatoad has a hole running express the beauty of human expression and show because it's presented as such? Most of all, MEGA through it so dusty visitors may connect to the the collective energy that is generated through MEGA is a good old fashioned prank in the spirit of experience of portaling through the frog, cleansing, collaboration. the Cacophony Society. or metamorphizing. 11 Stone 27 17 HEAD MAZE 5 The Shrine of Benjamin Langholz | California Matthew Schultz and The Pier | Reno, NV Sympathetic Resonance & Berlin, Germany Head Maze is a purposeful juxtapositions of two Tyson Ayers and Resonant Arts | Oakland, CA A ring of 27 floating stones creates a path that visitors forms, a meditative reflection and our inevitable A sanctuary dedicated to experiencing the can hop or climb from one stone to another. Step struggle with the nature of cognition. The head, phenomena of sympathetic resonance. Walls made into an alternate reality where destructive energy after the work of Yoshio Ikezaki, towers four stories of piano harps surround the participant with is harmonized with nature to create moments of over the playa floor, encased in mulberry paper and 20,000 musical strings that echo back every sound. physical and mental elevation. epoxy. A series of hidden doors in the mouth, wrists, Strings are tuned to pentatonic scales based on the and head open into a 18 room maze. Each room Schumann Resonance, the earth's fundamental 12 The Towers of Crete creates a unique space dedicated to the nature of our minds. frequency. Daniel Fennelly | Oakland, CA

6 The Towers of Crete stand upon the playa as a 18 Wing Portal Expansion Pavilion monument, connecting the dirt to the stars, the Shrine | Pasadena, CA ancient to the modern, and the abstract world of Suki Somersall, Sven Eberwein, John Briscella, Maria Dubrovskaya, Alexander Green, Stephan Representing the space in one's chest that expands forms to the world of the three dimensional. At Rodan, Josh McFarland, Glenn Robertson, and contracts, Expansion Pavilion is one in a nightfall the towers alight with flame, each taking Vincent Lauenstein | California long line of experiments with feeling peace and turns in a dialogue. The Towers are seven steel tripods, each crowned with a metal bowl containing Built as a gift for California, a sculpture of following hunches. The installation is a respite from transcendence made from the ruins of the congestion and chaos. Regroup and expand. a flame effect. A large bell hangs from the center of each tripod creating a site of mystic rites with motifs devastating 2018 fires that destroyed hundreds evoking the Cretan labyrinth. of homes and affected so many lives. As a visual 7 The Folly metaphor to transcendence and metamorphosis, Wing Portal’s wings span 60 feet across, and are built Dave Keane & The Folly Builders 13 Transmutation | San Francisco, CA out of recycled metal, iridescent dichroic acrylic Arturo Gonzalez | Saltillo, Coahuila Mexico panels and thousands of LED lights. An imaginary shantytown of funky climbable towers and old western storefronts, cobbled Is extinction forever? Evolution has never recreated 19 together from salvaged and reclaimed lumber from an extinct species. With the possibility of cloning Tulpa Ashrams original San Francisco Victorians. Affording shelter, extinct species, human science is about to break this One Art Museum | Peking, China rule. Through paleo-reconstruction, a Neanderthal entertainment and perspective to the community. Seven orderly towers form TULPA ASHRAMS. and a saber-toothed tiger emerge from extinction. Like a city’s old quarter, the Folly's purlieu will be Tulpa is a mystic/paranormal concept of a being or Find selected phrases by Terence McKenna, Carl a complicated network of passageways, ladders, object which is created through spiritual or mental Sagan, and Einstein, and reinvent yourself in a new, tunnels, cargo nets, secret doors and hidden rooms. powers. It was adapted by 20th century theosophists more conscious being . from Tibetan: meaning "emanation" or “manifestation."

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20 Paraluna 25 Serenity 31 O NOME DA ROSA: Solar ignition Christopher Schardt | Oakland, CA Flaming Lotus Girls | San Francisco, CA fire & mechanical energy generator Nuno Paulino & Artelier - TNR studios Combining kinetic sculpture, LEDs and music, Little did we know that the combination of | Loures, Lisboa, Portugal Paraluna’s main component is a 10m disc with bioluminescence and an old jar pulled from an 17,280 LEDs. A computer controls the LEDs while ancient radioactive site would catalyze a dramatic The Rose is Life: She is not precise. She guides rotating, raising, lowering, and tilting the disc. The metamorphosis. Now, three beautiful giant fireflies the desert nomads but never points the "correct" LED patterns work with the rotation of the disk, perch on top of an enormous broken jar, their or single North. If we can burn The Rose, then, creating spirals. Others use persistence-of-vision, glowing light reveal them to be steel, and they we testify to an amazing source of energy, the making an image hover in space. Classical music beckon viewers closer. Watch out, at night they benevolent god, the Sun. Built-in "fair" metal and plays at comfortable yet immersive volume, creating transform to truly become -fire - flies. sustainable & specific ethic materials: colored a comfortable, peaceful place. bottle bottoms, re-functionalized car headlights and original Portuguese Cork, our art is a "non 26 Fucking Useless human habitant" formed by a trinity of parts: 21 Puzzles and Prayers- Amy Lamboley & Don't Trust The "Solar Ray Gun”, "The Wind Rose” and The Reinventing the Prayer Wheel Wizards / San Francisco, CA "Dust Base.” Gwen Darling with Gwen and Josh A giant, ridiculous joke. It does absolutely nothing, Art | Santa Cruz, CA & Reno, NV flamboyantly. What sort of fucking wankers drag 32 Quality of Life a fucking useless pile of shite out to the arse end of The Tibetan culture created prayer wheels so its Quality of Life Crew & Joshua Vaile | Reno, NV illiterate population could benefit from the prayer nowhere to take the piss out of some manky hippies for compassion without knowing the exact words. and their muppet friends. Why don't you just sod off Resembling a flock of migrating birds balancing Prayer wheels are typically seen as individual and find something else to play with? on each others heads, Quality of Life incorporates wheels aligned in long rows, but the "Puzzles and large birds made from wood salvaged from a Prayers" wheel components are arranged in a grid. 27 The Intersection X demolished commercial building. The sculpture Each ceramic wheel is a puzzle piece. When spun stands as a symbol of natural process -- migration. into alignment, the wheels compose a beautiful Invisible Pink Unicorns | Moscow, Russia Each bird rotates independently allowing the mural. Nothing stays the same. Our surroundings morph, sculpture to slide in the wind. A large steel metal but what happens to human design if we give feather sits at the apex, symbolizing the fragility of balance. 22 Temple of Direction the reins back to the planet? Intersection X is fundamentally a conversation about Earth design. Geordie Van Der Bosch | San Francisco, CA In the place of last year’s intersection a new one 33 The Beat Box Organized linearly, the Temple of Direction appeared. It is the same, but absolutely different. Frankie Myers | Berkeley, CA recreates a restricted passage which expands into a Metamorphosis took its toll. large hall. This is a response to the openness of the Music is fundamental to the human experience. There isn't a single civilization that doesn't have playa; it creates a space traveled end to end; versus 28 Phoenix Rising wandering an open plan. It’s linearity reflects the some form of music or dance. Discover the joy of passage of life; all lives have a beginning, a middle Lisa DragonMistress Nigro - Scott collaborative music making at a vintage wooden Gasparian / Draka Arts | San Antonio, TX and an end which metaphorically is included in this crate emblazoned with images of delicious red temple's form. Tunnels create intimate experiences A steel hybrid between rooster and peacock, Phoenix beets. Push one of the five pulsing arcade-style with shade. A large central hall expands in width Rising embodies our need as humans to shed our buttons and lean into the microphone: "Bah dum and height providing direction and focus. skin, destroy what is old and reemerge from ashes. dum kah! Dum da dum kah!" Let go and your Historically, "Feng Huang" are mythological birds of fresh beat continues. 23 The Ovule East Asia that reign over other birds. The males are called Feng and the females Huang. The piece speaks 34 Toxic Unicorn Zoe Fry and The Introverts of gender equality and in our current time of chaos. Collective | Mill Valley, CA Madeleine Hamann and the Unicorn Liberation Front | San Diego, CA In botany an Ovule is the part of the ovary of seed 29 Niloticus plants that contains the female germ cell. The Ovule Most of us have had an experience with a Toxic is a self-portrait; an exploration of the feminine Peter Hazel | Reno, NV Unicorn - one of those charismatic, magnetic people who light you up until you realize there's self and the value found there. Appearing as a large Mosaic sculptures occupy a unique niche in desert amber egg, it contains two sculptures, a figure and something off about them. This Toxic Unicorn art -- color. Partially standing, this 40' long crocodile's is a rainbow-colored, life-sized sculpture, but a tree symbolizing humanity in all the beauty of its head rises above the rest of his body. Body made of gender and color spectrum. The tree expresses the beware...those drawn in by its shiny facade may thousands of handmade, high-fired ceramic tile, its be surprised by this unicorn’s less than pleasant gender and color diversity of animal species. eyes, teeth, and spikes are made of fused and hand interactive features. blown glass all brought to life by LED light. 24 The Flybrary 35 Cloud Swing / Cloud Swing Storm Christina Sporrong | Taos, NM 30 Archaeopteryx Lindsay Glatz and Miracle Wonderland A library within an enormous human head, partially Nicholas Debruyne & Wevolve Carnival Co | New Orleans, LA Labs | London, England cut open at the top allowing a flock of illuminated Swings, a ubiquitous symbol of childhood, birds to emerge. Within the head are several levels The Archaeopteryx (arc-kee-opt-er-ix) is the first suspended from a glowing cloud. The swing of catwalks to climb and nooks and crannies to sit in bird known to evolve from the ancient dinosaur, generates feelings of nostalgia and simplicity. and enjoy the selection of books. The eyes and mouth marking an important leap in the story of Unoccupied, the cloud above emanates a steady are portholes to the outside world. Up above, the evolution. Through collaboration, participants can white glow of light, appearing to float within open ceiling holds a large chandelier radiating soft mobilize her 16ft wingspan and activate beautiful the darkness. Once occupied the transformation light within. Through a fantastical library within a illuminating light graphics. The Archaeopteryx is and color begins to glow, showing that no matter head, books like TAZ, Fahrenheit 451, Orwell's 1984 a physical and symbolic reminder that in order for what pulls you back, wonder, delight, and joy and The World Without Us guide us to new ideas humans to evolve, we must work together. will inevitably push you forward. and innovation.

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36 No Place Like Home 42 Internal Exposure 47 Fan Coral Trey Watkins, Mara Greenberg, Alan Becker, Jessica Levine | South Lake Tahoe, CA Bryson Allen | San Diego, CA Karen Cusolito, Andrew Howell, Meena Sandhu and Frogma | SF Bay Area, Los Slithering vines of steel birth a human head The Fan Coral silently busies itself building its Angeles, Vancouver, London & Zurich from an abstract flower whose petals can dance complex networked structure - patiently awaiting as people interact. A single light bulb hangs from drifters to bring it to life with vibrant colors of flame. A fire tornado hurled a small Kansas farmhouse to a inside, emanating light from within the mind Standing 10 feet tall, it takes the organic colony world of magic and wonder. Discover a curious story and distorting perception for those who decide to structure of the Fan Coral to a scale that makes woven into the details of the broken house. A road of peer through her teleidoscope eyes. This sculpture humans feel small. The Fan Coral is fashioned using yellow brick weaves through a trail of giant flaming represents the concept of a "planted seed" in the forged steel rod and tubing spanning 8-10 feet in poppies. Propane, steel, methanol, wood, brick, iron, mind--germinating, and blossoming into a full width. Fire is incorporated throughout the coral & rubber are assembled to create a magical journey. fledged idea. webbing to set the coral aglow. Participants can control the blasts to bring the coral to life. 37 The Monumental Mammoth 43 Cosmo Tahoe Mack, Sherri Grotheer, Luis Varela- 48 Bee or Not to Bee Rico, Dana Albany, Las Vegas, NV Roger Heitzman | Scotts Valley, CA Mr. & Mrs. Ferguson | Alameda, CA A life-sized steel Colombian mammoth skeleton tells Rising out of a tower of hand-bent deep rust the story of the past, present, and future. The interior patina steel flames is a contrasting stainless steel This bee is big. Compared to a person, this sculpture steel structure and intricate weavings of recycled kinetic wind sculpture. The sculpture's center is big, but so is the contribution the honey bee brings materials represents the distinctive Las Vegas steel tube supports the 6 axes on which the hand- to the world's food supply. Don't be intimidated by community. With the coming mass extinction, it hammered stainless steel wind-catching cups its size. Get close. Draw your hands through its hair. begs the question of the present's pressing issue, that spin. Precisely balanced, the piece will react Feel the limbs. Sit on its flower. You're not vulnerable climate change and the health of the planet has been to gentlest of breezes yet withstand the most at all, but the bee species is. passed down to the next generation. As the ancient intense winds. At the very top sits the sun, made Chinese Proverb states "The best time to plant a tree of a stainless steel sphere surrounded by rusted 49 The Wheels of Zoroaster was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” steel flames. This piece gives the illusion of the Resurrection heat generated by upward-moving flames rising to activate the sculpture. Anton Viditz-Ward & Deep Creek 38 Giant Pinball Machine Experimental | Telluride, CO Benjamin Newman | Sacramento, CA 44 Wings of Glory Two large wheels hang on two axles driven independently by two drive shafts with hand- The Giant Pinball Machine resembles its smaller Adrian Landon and the Dusty cranks. The wheels are cages that contain wood that cousin, but with important differences. Resting on Sparks | New York City, NY is set on fire and spun by hand-cranked drive shafts. the playa, this 16’ long machine rises 10’ high and A giant mechanical metal Pegasus sculpture, Shared experience through fire is a central tenet to stretches 6’ wide. Rolling between the bumpers and flying in the air. It is the expression and the spirit of artistic expression. Sparks and energy flippers, a chrome ball puts points on the board. As embodiment of pure, epic, beautiful and awesome create an impromptu communal gathering around with most games, it will be fun to play, but relying creativity. Wings of Glory runs and flies in slow the fire. The vitality of people dancing in the sparks on others is the more important part of the equation. motion, making 6 gallop and flap cycles per meld with the energy of the Wheels of Zoroaster. minute, all running off one electric motor. Inside 39 Chapel of the Chimes he pedestal will be a room with information on 50 Pieuvre Infinity Gathered | Washington, D.C. the project and a mini mechanical horse encased in plexiglass. Kelly Schott | San Diego, CA Representing fiery passion, devotion, and love, the "With arms outstretched and swirling in the sea Chapel of the Chimes is a space to hold ceremonies 45 of stars, we watch her as she dances gracefully and write love stories on walls. Chimes are mounted El Diabla through the dust… carrying lanterns of light to lead in resonating chambers with open tops and bottoms Crimson Rose and Iron Monkeys | Seattle, WA our way." This ornate octopus creates an ethereal to amplify tones in harmony. The chapel’s upper and On the first Monday of the event, Crimson Rose essence of submersion into the depths of the sea by lower parts were once installed on the National Mall extracts a flame from the Sun to light a fire in bringing the ocean floor to BRC. Made of stainless for Catharsis on the Mall in 2017 and 2019. El Diabla, a special cauldron located in Center steel, copper, and brass - the body features delicate Camp. For the flame to continue burning it must seaweed filigree accents, LED lit suckers, and stained 40 Flow Nexus be stoked, disturbed, and kept alive throughout glass mosaics. Interact with Pieuvre, remember the Nick Heyming | Emerald Village, CA the entire week. We encourage all those that delicate nature of our Earth and the beings in it, encounter El Diabla to help keep this flame alive. return to the default world with a renewed sense of A place to gather, get out of your head and into your personal obligation in appreciating our planet and body. Arising from the fire spinning and juggling 46 treating it with more respect. communities, Flow Arts has come to encompass Bottled Up Genie acro-yoga, hula hooping, belly dancing, martial arts, Bottled Up Genie / Oakland, CA circus arts, and more. These movement practices 51 Mariposita An elaborate giant wooden bottle with a captive share the altered state of consciousness known Chris Carnabuci | Cold Spring, NY Genie perched inside on a tree. Genie is a creative, as “Flow.” When in "Flow," time and self criticism intelligent, mythological, guardian spirit. His Mariposita, meaning "little butterfly", represents melt away, while a greater capacity for innovation, role is to make dreams come true allowing rebirth - of coming out of a shell - escaping problem solving, and expression takes hold. something to happen that can't be stopped. At confinement, and breaking through to a more the base of the genie's feet is a Book of Wishes meaningful and enlightening existence or 41 Bounce Back where participants can write their dreams. experience. The act of emerging, however, is usually Sarah Gonsalves | Los Angeles, CA Fantasies and dreaming are an important part not so simple, and the complexity experienced of the human experience. The Bottled Up Genie both within the individual viewer and expressed Just for the sheer joy of it! This hand-built kinetic represents our capacity to wish and to dream in externally as a communal experience, will become sculpture uses pedals and cooperation to power an the face of base human condition. the atmosphere surrounding this piece. amalgamation of industrial equipment and playful objects to create the contained chaos of a musical, visual, physical, spectacle. Thousands of bouncy superballs are lifted on high by a bucket elevator and dropped twenty feet to bounce & ping around. Crazy! 5 BURNING MAN 2019 Art Descriptions (continued)

52 La Métamorphose des 57 Cone Down 63 Penguin Colony Animaux Extraordinaires Looking Up Arts / San Francisco, CA Quill Hyde & Acavallo / Tonasket, WA Esmeralda Nadeau-Jasso | Winlaw, Canada A whimsical acknowledgment of life's little Penguins have a robust stubbornness and a ready It's a giant wooden pop-up book! When it’s opened, indignities. This fallen ice cream cone has a steel willingness to endure. Waddling to remote, it springs to life. Explore an antique 19th century frame, with vacuum formed polycarbonate panels inhospitable environments, and sitting there and biology textbook that has magically come to life. lit with LEDs. Cone Down is climbable with a keeping an egg warm while nature does her best to Each page turn reveals a new pop-up telling the viewing deck on top. Inside of the ice cream scoop freeze everything. Metal fire-pit penguins arrayed metamorphosis story of 4 different extraordinary will be a padded 'chill' area for respite during the day. around a small wooden shack form pockets of creatures with their own soundscapes and Play with sound reactivity, conductivity sensors, and warmth and encourage interaction, and a pause in lighting. -Moth (Hyalophora Gloveri) -Immortal buttons that trigger effects. the rush between here to stop, warm up, and engage Jellyfish (Turritopsis Dohrnii) -Frog (Pseudacris the colony. Maculata) -Human (Homo Sapien). 58 I.L.Y. 64 The Man's Army Dan Mountain / Portola Valley, CA 53 The Bard's Branch Michael Ciulla & The Rave “The first girl I had a crush on was deaf… She taught Knights / Los Angeles, CA Pam Ward | San Francisco, CA me sign language. I learned that a single hand During the burn you are vandalized, altered, The Childhood joy of books and climbing trees pose can incorporate the letters I, L, and Y to mean stretched by the thoughts and intentions of others. brought to the playa through a 15' tall tree "I love you.” A 27 foot forearm and hand, fabricated Then the burn, everyone is transformed. The library. A comfy armchair is at the top for folks from engineered steel, recycled and repurposed Man's Army is 100 androgynous life-sized human to read in this old tree library with bookshelves, scrap metal meant to engage in various visual, figures standing in a 10 x 10 grid. Each has skin of staircases and books growing all over it. Recessed physical, and emotional ways. Housing chains, white wax and a unique 3D printed face created by shelves are hidden in the trunk and books have gears, sprockets, and springs, the involvement of a point-cloud scan of real people. Throughout the light up letters, inspiring words and pop-up participants allows the fingers to be manipulated. week the figures are customized, culminating in a images inside. Trees gave us knowledge of plant transformative burn. medicines. The bards would wander from village 59 Welcome Home to village to meet under a tree to tell fables, 65 poems & myths. Joey Howell and Brian Dean of SALT Circus Fabulae MIND / Salt Lake City, UT Benjamin Jones and the Populus Ludere / Brooklyn, NY 54 Critonium Clock Burners call the playa home not because of the location, but because of the people we share it with; A whimsical two-story swing set with a beautiful, Alena Starostina / San Francisco, CA friends, family, lovers, strangers. Welcome Home custom designed mosaic roof and circular play space "No time like the present for things to happen in, creates an absurdly normal setting by taking a space for performances. Circus Fabulae's main philosophy no better way to keep time straight and steady than associated with default homes and bringing it to our is Play By Any Means Imagined. At its a heart is by the signal from General Technics' critonium true home. This fully decorated parlour in the sky a space produced by a community of artists for clock, so accurate it serves to judge the stars." invites wanderers to climb, explore, and enjoy the interaction. Track the time with a sundial, a soft clock, and a view. rotating hourglass. Examine time with a purpose 66 Theophany and challenge your perception of accuracy. Time 60 Fascination is a paradox and an illusion as it combines the Coup De Foudre / San Francisco, CA Joseph Culpepper, C:Lab and CRITAC future and the past, simultaneously presenting a / Montreal, Quebec, Canada A spinning tornado of fire and lightning meant to quantitative measuring system with a qualitative inspire awe and wonder. It sits on an elevated base, one. "Fascination" is defined as either the "casting of a from which rises a glass and metal sheath that spell; sorcery, enchantment," or "the state of being encases and drives the whirlwind. The pillar of fire under a spell." Magic and optical illusions require 55 Portal in the desert is an ancient symbol of knowledge and interaction to exist. Fascination gives wanderers the immediacy. Coup de Foudre at heart is collection of David Oliver and the Art City Monsters | opportunity to engage passively or actively. Choose Ventura, CA evangelists for science and engineering, a jumping to the role of magician or spectator. off ground for people's interest in physics, math, and A portal of possible transformation... not to that sciences. which is coming, but to things already here. 61 Plaza of Introspectus Made from 4,608 stained glass tiles with a total Iron Monkeys / Seattle, WA 67 Bee Dance of 24 colors, the Portal stands 12' in diameter. Two 7-thousand pound basalt stone columns stand Fire and art are both powerful agents of change. Andrea Greenlees, Andy Tibbetts, and Josh guard from the left and from the right. Portal will When combined, they encourage new interactions Haywood / London, UK & Reno, NV also be lit with a laser light show controlled by a and provoke exchanges. Plaza of Introspectus is a When forager bees find pollen, they return to the theremin device, with sound effects that go off 60' wide gathering space laid out in the shape of a hive and perform an intricate dance to worker bees when one enters. compass. A flaming steel armillary on an 8' pedestal to communicate the distance and direction of the will be the centerpiece. Metal benches and fire zen food. 'Bee Dance' celebrates this communication 56 Carousel Zarya gardens fill the space offering rest and reflection. with an installation in the form of two gigantic The Plaza isn’t complete until the community dancing bees, their legs entwined and their heads Carousel Zarya, Moscow, Russia interacts with it. touching in a bee kiss. A rotating, post-apocalyptic, interactive art in- stallation and ride. The carousel looks hellish, but 62 Cathenge 68 Purr Pods when it starts to move, it emits light and sound to David Normal / Stinson Beach, CA become a celebration of creativity and the ecstasy Paige Tashner/Laser Eyes of Love / Point Richmond, CA of life. Zarya in Russian means the sunrise, and Cathenge is a Cat temple of interactive light and this name references the possibility of a post- sound that explores the harmonics of purring and Experience the healing power of the purr. Feline apocalyptic utopia. If humanity itself can learn to emanates kitty kundalini. Six tall, elegant, mystical, forms gaze with Laser Eyes of Love and envelop produce light and love, it will be able to continue glowing cat statues represent the lives of cats and participants in sonic vibrations. Snuggle down into even after societal collapse. shoot lasers from their eyes. the cozy bellies of the Purr Pods and be revived.

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69 Bee Divine Hive Temple 74 Skywhale: The Not ShyWhale 80 Elephantes: Hommage au Dali The Hive, Lead Artist: Elizabeth Blake Marcus, Chris Welch, Seven / Jack Champion / Oakland, CA Huebner / Santa Barbara, CA Amherst, MA Set against the desert landscape, two full sized Set in a hexagonal Temple to the Divine Feminine In nature, water creatures live in a place elephants walk on spider like legs with floating and the Bee, this project seeks to empower female physically below that of terrestrial humans, and obelisks on their backs. Homage au Dali is an identifying participants by creating themselves as they have been downstream of many harmful interpretation of Salvador Dali's “Elephantes." a Divine archetype. Each night, Priestesses utilizing human activities. SkyWhale, a life sized flying This is not a replica, but rather an intention to tools of sacred theater, shamanism and hypnosis to technicolor whale, aims to show that there can place these majestic creatures into a landscape guide them into a state of heightened embodiment. be progress. She can help heal and transform the which is represented in the original painting.. This alchemy takes place as an interactive ritual human relationship with nature. theater open for all to engage with. 81 The Dollhouse 75 Sabbatical 70 House of Strange Rituals / Eugene, OR Taking Flight Neophyte Nexus / Toronto, Ontario, Canada Nicki Adani / Mill Valley, CA The Dollhouse is a life-size dollhouse replica, A sabbatical is said to provide an individual time modeled after a turn of the century Victorian Be who you truly are and leave behind what's outside of their regular life demands to grow home, where participants are encouraged to holding you back. A 10-foot tall feminine, bird-like personally, professionally and spiritually. Sabbatical discover haunted elements by interacting with figure, welded from raw steel rods and tubes, and is a visual representation of the relationship of objects that trigger lights and sound. Each room wings spread wide, takes flight from her perch upon BRC, participant and inspiration. The structure has a unique interactive sound installation, a 10-foot tall spoked wheel, representing the circle is partially a representation of the Truckee River which plays off the concept of a seance gone of life. Viewers interact by making colorful ropes that flows through Downtown Reno, a place to wrong. and weaving them into the wheel as a metaphor contemplate and discuss with friends. Within this of releasing one's past. "Taking Flight,'' symbolizes Sabbatical river are lights and written messages to 82 Reared In Steel's Fire Kethedral saying #metoo and "what now?" We can't erase show the flow of inspiration. experiences we have already lived through, but we Reared In Steel / Petaluma, CA can speak our truths, let go and grow. 76 Fragments, 2019 The Fire Kethedral resembles a cathedral organ as a colossal fire instrument - a shrine to fire. 71 Marc Ippon de Ronda with the support Chapel Perilous of ATO Designs Studio / Paris, France Fabricated from steel tubing and CNC cut sheet Rob Leifheit & the Enchanted Booty metal, the structure stands forty feet tall and Forest / Los Angeles, CA The installation plays with illusion of appearances fifty feet long. An instrumentalist plays the and our ever-changing perception of self and Only two walls of the ruins of Chapel Perilous still instrument, choreographing fire as music surroundings. During the day Burners see their stand, sunken heavily into the ground over time. through a full keyboard, shooting fire with every reflections evolve inside the fragmented mirrors as Dark and mysterious outside, four stained glass keystroke. they move through the sand winds and find shelter windows and a large rosette illuminate the interior in its corners and covers. At night, "Fragments" of the piece. Custom light patterns and ambient 83 shifts again into abstract LED surfaces. The Heads sounds engage visitors to learn more about Timothy Jeremy Suurkivi / San Francisco, CA Leary's eight circuits of consciousness — a state one enters when facing truth that disagrees with 77 Sputnik Theremin An arrangement of eleven mannequin heads their notion of reality. Chapel Perilous isn't just the Linda Ljungahl / Oxelösund, Sweden on pedestals. The heads rotate, track people and name of this installation— it's a metaphorical state objects, and speak, changing in response to how wherein the individual, at every turn, is met with In these times of technical progress and renewed they are viewed. Each has a different personality, information that disagrees with their perception of interest in space exploration, let the first human- their speech conveying the personal emotions reality. made object in space guide you through a musical and ideas that their creators have experienced. metamorphosis into unknown territories of what They may berate participants for taking pictures the future has to give us. 72 Corpus or make themselves harder to be viewed. They may be a mirror of visitors themselves. Michael Christian / Berkeley, CA 78 Diver UP Muscles in tension or hyperstimulation. Strong Victor Spinelli / Ibiza, Spain 84 Happy Birthday! (MEGA CAKE) exaggerated and dynamic. Larger muscle like forms As we enter into the Age of Aquarius and increased Thom White and Piece of Cake branching from the base moving up into more Productions / Norfolk, VA chaotic uncertain positions. Folding and wrapping equality between man and women, Diver UP on, around and into itself. A voluptuous or sensuous mixes a female body with an industrial object thus Mirroring the ephemeral nature of the feeling at its base, more visceral than cerebral, juxtaposing a made-made object with 'Mother customary birthday cake – a whimsical work evolves upward into more chaotic experience. Earth'. Diver UP is an 8'-tall metal sculpture whose of art made to be immediately consumed in form incorporates an old commercial diving helmet celebration – the MEGA CAKE is made, shared and a woman (feminine goddess) — Man Made in with all of the citizens of Black Rock City, and 73 Syzygy contrast to Mother Earth. then consumed by fire. The interior contains a Taylor Dean Harrison / Oakland, CA series of chambers with interactive exhibits that Syzygy is a viewer-responsive sculptural installation 79 Nirmanakaya relate to birthdays and how we mark the passing that reveals a drawing made from light as the sun of time in our lives. Michael Emery / Felton, Santa Cruz, CA fades. The installation consists of 6 colorful metal sculptures that cast ~7000 square feet of light and "5 billion years ago planet Earth was a ball of shadow drawings onto the playa. The shadows and molten magma. Now it sings opera." Nirmanakaya = Audio Tour light on the ground move around as the sculptures is a 7' tall rectangular monolith covered in ceramic = Art Speaks Artist respond to viewers walking amongst them. When tile sculpted, carved and stamped to create a hieroglyphic storyline of constant metamorphosis, the work's center point is occupied, the various Remember to Leave No Trace! colors of the massive drawing move to their true different expressions of the same unchanging Please keep, share, or recycle this map. alignment. "possibility field "of being-ness.

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