has been awarded a grant by Burning Man Project. Registered Art includes all other projects that have registered for placement on the open playa in BRC. You can learn more about the BRC Art program here.2025
(RE)Routing
(Re)Routing offers a four-sided community gathering space.
A 12′ flaming armillary, redesigned and illuminated, stands at its center. Glowing gems mark cardinal directions. Fire pits, flaming zen gardens, and benches provide seating. The armillary and gems are reimagined elements from past projects
1:44 Lotus Flower Portal
The Lotus Flower’s roots connect us into the Christaline Timelines, the crystals within the earth, within our bodies. It is with deep seeking that we root into our darkness, the dark soils of Mother Earth and connect to the jewels that are our wisdom, our illumination and understanding of our souls connection and purpose here.
A 24 foot diameter lotus flower comprised of thirteen petals ranging in size from 9 to 16 feet high, made of steel pipe covered in white fabric, sitting on water blue carpet with a single Fleur-de-Lis shaped entrance. The Fleur-de-lis or Lilly flower is also the three fold flame design that we see on Royal Fabric belonging to the King/Queen Archetype, that characteristic within ourselves that is self empowered.
There is a central seed pod seating area as well as cushions in each petal. Recordings of Maraya leading meditations play softly from a small sound system within the seed pod seat. The space within the petals provides a respite from the harsh Burning Man environment for participants to connect with one another and go within their own hearts and minds.
There will be subtle lighting at night illuminating the white (for purity and balance) petals in slowly cycing hues of blue (for willpower), to pink (for compassion), to gold (for wisdom) to create a serene, meditative and transformative atmosphere. These are the same colors as the sunset and sunrise, completion and new beginnings. The oscillating serpent nature of our kundalini moving forward. The parents of the Kingdoms of Heaven, here on Earth.
A Harmonious Journaling Moment
Burners are invited to venture out to the trash fence, to a calm sanctuary away from hustle and bustle, to see 5 colorful hand painted silk flags with intricate iridescent lines and kind phrases, to journal and then to guess the code to the safe and help themselves to a sticker gift from the safe. The flags and kind phrases make Burners feel safe, the colorful iridescent lines serving as protection.
The art piece hopes for the Burners to calm down, to slow down, to journal, to sit down on one of the two chairs at a table and have a, right away, deep no-small-talk conversation with another Burner who is doing the same – taking a break form it all, reflecting. Burners will also hear some wind chimes playing in the winds of Black Rock Desert.
A Quiet Place to Scream
A well lit, welcoming spot to let it all go. Just SCREAM away! It feels good, it’s good for you. No judgement, sit, stand, lay down. Just scream and yell! Do it alone or do it with a stranger, friends or strange friends. Cause don’t we all just need a quiet place to scream these days?!
A(MAZE)
A(MAZE) is a large-scale interactive sculpture that invites visitors to enter into a monolithic maze – that quickly removes them from their previous context and inspires a sense of peaceful contemplation and wonder.
ABC'z
ABC’z……on your journey along the iconic trash fence in the deepest of playa, you will get an education…..relearn your alphabet…..on the fence, you will enjoy A through Z art, one piece for each letter. For example, T will be transistor radios, V will be a hand painted person voting, X will be…. well, come and find it! I will make 26 letters, and I will have 26 guest artists……you never know what the next green t-stake will be decorated with!
This is the 14th time I’ve adorned the trash fence, and my 20th burn……brought to you once again by BlinkingManCamp97, Dragnet: where excess just never seems to be enough.
Afterlife Reincarnate
Afterlife Reincarnate is a visually stunning fluorescent, LED, and blacklight-lit installation measuring 150′ x 150′ and soaring over 35′ tall.
It is a large-scale immersive and multi-sensory art piece teleporting visitors to the ancient temples of Angkor and Borobudur, the pagodas of Japan and China, the stupas of India and Tibet, and the architectures of Minangkabau and Thailand. While mystical fire-breathing dragons roam through fluttering clouds and prayer flags, the spires on the temples shoot into the heavens.
Gates, shrines, pagodas, and stupas are arranged in a Tibetan-inspired mandala. Lit up in bright neon colors, the installation will be a beacon on playa and can be seen from a distance.
Alchemy
Large figurative metal drums, inviting you to play a little beat.
Altar of Awen
Altar of Awen: Temple of Reflection, House of the Radiant Heart is an interactive sculptural environment that serves as both a literal and figurative reflective space, inspired by the Welsh concept of inspiration, where the heart and creativity converge.
A diamond structure of steel featuring two-way acrylic “glass” creates a unique observational mirror effect. During the day, participants on the outside see reflections of themselves and the environment. As night falls and the light diminishes, the interior of the structure becomes more visible, inviting onlookers into a world of shared creativity and inspiration. The centerpiece of this sculpture, the Altar, symbolizes the convergence of emotion and creativity.
An Event Horizon
A striking fusion of art and technology, this installation embodies the theme of interconnectedness and the passage of time. Towering metallic structures form an intricate, swirling vortex, evoking the visual of a collapsing star or a rippling event horizon. Embedded lights pulse rhythmically, creating an illusion of movement and depth. Inspired by cosmic forces, the piece reflects on humanity’s relationship with the unknown and the future. The installation invites contemplation on the nature of transformation, change, and the unseen forces shaping our reality.
An Ode to Odilon Redon
It is said that The Cyclops Polyphemus followed the Mormon Cricket Crusade into the territory beside the Trash Fence in search of his one true love, the naiad Galatea. Unfortunately the one eyed monster’s singular focus was so strong it prevented him from understanding that Galatea was actually in love with the river god Acis.
Alas, when we yearn for something with our entire being, but utilizing only our tunnel vision, it can blind us from reality.
Ancestors of Dawn
A teardrop-shaped shelter made from mycelium and up-cycled materials lit by solar lights.
Inspired by the mystique of dawn, a symbolism of new beginnings, regeneration, a new day and light after dark, the piece explores the cults of the Divine Mothers.
It is to these ancestors that we pay homage.
We ask what kind of future ancestors will we be, and how will we affect our descendants?
We must look beyond ourselves and the species of our kin.
It is in this beyond that we may find our answers.
Anode
Anode rises as a luminous crystalline structure. Translucent panels create a holographic geometric pattern, forming spaces of light and shadow that shift according to the day and night. While inside the structure, participants experience a shift in scale, becoming atom-like within the larger molecular form representing humanity’s position as both individual and cosmic energy.
Anode transforms us into a nervous system of light pathways, illuminating the connections between all who enter its space and empowering a deeper understanding of our capacity to create, as energy requires flow between the polarities of anode and cathode, rather than the rejection of either.
Apocalyptic Deep Sea Portal
An open wooden cube. A structure for gathering in the company of the guiding deep sea creatures, handmade crocheted deep sea creatures hanging from the top of the structure. Reflecting on the importance of the ocean, the ocean creatures and our interdependence with each other. A place to meet friends, and to make new friends.
Apotheneum
Apo-the-neum (place of divine elevation) is a visual, sonic, and haptic instrument intended to “transport” visitors through participatory immersion. Comprised of two nested chambers made of back-to-back LED nets, Apotheneum presents multiple canvases and an immersive sound system for collaborating visual and sound artists. Apotheneum’s cubic antechamber envelops a cylindrical “inner sanctum” that opens to the sky. Within this chamber, a pressure-sensing “bed” offers multiple vantage points for the three primary senses to be engaged.
Intended as a “slow” space, the light and sound art that Apotheneum will feature are designed to encourage pause and contemplation.
Aquatica
A mutant kelp tree (forged metal, LEDs) grows strange jellyfish with glass-like bodies and illuminated optical fiber tentacles. The jellies undulate in the wind (15′ above the ground), as ocean sounds float from above and around the tree.
Arctic Court
Arctic Court is multisensory installation; it is a heartfelt exploration of the human spirit, capturing the delicate dance between fragility and strength.
At its core, Arctic Court features captivating images of characters like the Snow Queen and the LuxuryClown, adorned in intricate, ice-inspired costumes that symbolize both the beauty and vulnerability of the human experience. The Snow Queen, a poignant figure of self-discovery, embodies empowerment and inner strength, inviting participants to reflect on their own journeys. In the unforgiving environment of Burning Man, where the heat can be oppressive and the nights starkly cold, this installation serves as a reminder of the warmth that can emerge from our shared struggles.
Arise
Arise is an invitation from the goddess.
The Mother of Transformation and Creation.
She is here to wake us up,
to remind us that we are alive,
remind us of where we are,
where we came from,
and where we are going.
In her presence, we envision “tomorrow, today”
guided by divine feminine wisdom, leadership and strength
in ecstatic union, felt communion, dance, song, poetry, and prayer. She invites us to Arise to the times, with strength, courage, patience, heart, hope.
Activate the activist within us
to carry forth with our light shining bright
our heart open
for our more beautiful tomorrow, today
Arm Chair
Arm. Chair. Arm Chair. Chair made out of assorted arms. Equal parts play on words and place to sit/be supported by the arms of your community.
Art for Love
Each original art piece is created with love and it is my hope that a piece will speak to you and thereby spreading love everywhere. Each piece will be gifted by me (the artist) to anyone that feels a connection to a piece. This is how I spread love and kindness to you with the hope that it will inspire you to do the same wherever you go.
Art Is the Solution
Art Is the Solution is a series of wooden cubes that open at the top but are all locked SHUT. On each cube is a unique puzzle whose answer will reveal the combination required to unlock that cube.
Once unlocked, each cube will reveal remarkable and personal pieces of art. The contents inside will remain locked until that mystery is solved. Every puzzle has an answer and Art Is the Solution.
As Above, So Cee Lo
Three 12 foot by 12 foot dice stacked in a pyramid shape. Each die is a themed room representing Life, Loss, and the absurd.
Ascension
“Ascension” is a pyramid composed of five custom-created two-way mirrors, standing 80 inches tall with a base measuring 55 by 55 inches accompanied by custom built kaleidoscope 36×24 inches. A LED panel will sit within the base, underneath the bottom directional mirror projecting imagery from the kaleidoscope into the mirrored structure causing the imagery to be fractalized into infinity as it bounces off each face of the pyramid. The kaleidoscope will be made of metal, glass and mirror and LED which will be connected to a live feed HD camera projecting the imagery into the pyramid via the LED panels. Imagine interacting with a kaleidoscope but instead of looking through a small eye piece, the eye piece is a 7 foot tall pyramid.
Ascension to Infinity
A 27 ft tall, skeletonized tower with a corkscrew ladder ascending from ground to tower. The tower will be supported by four triangular 6 ft x 6 ft fins, creating a rocket-like silhouette. The access column, fitted with a ladder, leads participants into a mirrored room with a mesh seating area. Inside, LED lighting will be strategically placed at mirror transitions to frame the room, enhancing the infinity effect and adding depth and visual appeal. A portal leads to a descending corkscrew ladder that guides participants back to the playa floor. The exterior will be wrapped with recycled plasma cut steel sheeting, yielding a transparent appearance during the day and a backlit silhouette at night.
Atomic Secrets
A nuclear reactor core is a place where dangerous emissions can safely be released to facilitate an act of transformation. Atomic Secrets challenges participants to become something new, as they react to intimate secrets being shared inside. Last year we collected nearly 1500 anonymous secrets at our installation Spiral Of Secrets, and this year we will blow them up! Inside of an 8’ x 8’ x 8′ cube, posters as well as the original cards will be affixed to the walls, and a trippy sound collage of the secrets being read aloud will be playing. Within the reactor core, participants will be asked to reflect on how they have changed over time and what catalyzed their transformation. Outside will be decorated with symbols of atomic imagery. Come inside and have a meltdown, and return to watch it all burn!
Auditorium
A calming oasis of light, spatial music and 3D ambient sound, designed to intrigue and inspire. Wander through an orchestra, lay in the middle of a breaking wave, or surround yourself with swirling piano notes and singing birds.
Aunisoma
Our perception of reality is colored not only by our own emotions but through others and by the external world. How we understand something at one moment may not be the same in the next moment. We all live together in a multi-colored world that is often out of our control. This piece aims to embrace all that beautiful chaos of all these beautiful people into something to be celebrated, allowing ourselves to be curious, explore, and adapt to the ever-changing internal and external realities.
Back to the Future: Dystopia about the Space Dogs
The installation “Back to the Future: Dystopia about the Space Dogs” brings us back to the golden age of sci-fi when faith in the omnipotent human mind and spirit was boundless. The design of the art object uses the works of different artists from science fiction novels. The heroes of their works – conquerors of outer space, extraterrestrial landscapes, as well as intelligent and faithful to mankind robots.
The installation is composed of the 5 fire pit orbs. Five orbs, that tell you the cosmic legend are located around the magnificent fire pit flower.
Baobab Tree
The Baobab Tree is a stoic beacon of sustainability that endures for millennia in contrast to its changing environment. We use repurposed materials from single-use waste as a reminder of the disposable products brought by Burning Man participants, in order to spark hopeful conversations about our responsibility and impact on our planet.
Bats in the Belfry
The god Aeshtah resides in a 10′ tall mask shrine with an internal neural network, illuminating its dreams. When approaching, you will see one large mask composed of rhythmic designs crowned with multiple faces. Intrinsic LED light effects embedded in the face of the mask highlight key features. Inside Aeshtah’s mask, an LED neuronal network is fully animated. Cauldrons of bats swirl and illuminate unique LED pathways in the network. A sacred gong is available to participants willing to suppress the crazed apparitions. The sound of the gong evokes a vibrational spell to ease the passage of the god Aeshtah to its temporary residence in the mask shrine, suppressing the cauldrons of bats and incorporating participants into the mind of Aeshtah.
Beast Mode
The beast emerges from the dark underground, covered in spikes and entwined with serpent creatures and tentacles. It is surrounded by lamp posts adorned with crystals and lights that emit a warm glow, creating a contrast with the darkness of the beast. The intentional interplay between the beast and the lamps emphasizes the balance between light and dark, fear, and wonder.
Beatboxer
Beatboxer is a human-sized drum machine in the shape of a pyramid. Citizens of Black Rock City interact with it by pressing any of the 64 arcade-style buttons. Each button toggles a drum sound and LED. The more buttons pressed, the more complex the beats, along with some surprises.
Between Then and Now
The installation is composed of matte black poles, each shaped as a rigid parallelepiped and standing between five and six feet tall. Arranged in a loose formation evoking a corridor or fragmented tunnel, the structures inhabit unwarped space with a silent tension. A single edge of each pole emits a soft, shifting glow, subtly disrupting the rigidity of the otherwise austere geometry. Together, they form a tangible manifestation of a threshold in space-time, where the boundaries between time, light, and existence begin to blur, yet the form remains sharply, almost impossibly, clear. The installation invites stillness and motion, perception and reflection, guiding the viewer through a passage between then and now.
Black Cloud
We all want life to run smoothly, yet Burning Man participants understand that the unexpected can happen, requiring creativity and careful preparation. Our Black Cloud symbolizes the many threats—from global crises to personal obstacles—that often remain unspoken or unnoticed until they’re suddenly at our doorstep. By giving these looming perils a tangible, physical form, we hope to spark honest conversations about how to address them before they become overwhelming. Whether thinking of the COVID pandemic or the war in Ukraine (which began in 2014), acknowledging threats is the first step in transforming them. Although the cloud warns of instability, it also offers a gathering point where we can find camaraderie, and hope—reminding us that, together, we can adapt, resist, and shape a better future.
Black Rock City Chicken Ranch
The Black Rock City Chicken Ranch is a brothel of absurdity, where reality is fractured. Inside, participants pummel and pulverize rubber chickens to create a cacophony of ‘caws’. The squawks crescendo and penetrate the mind, altering the lights and reality itself. Every journey ends by crawling into the egg hole where citizens fall into the pit of squawks within which bliss and chaos meet. They then emerge, damaged or healed, back to the desert. Lucky citizens will be greeted by the Madam and be ‘poultrified’ by her squawking member. All roads lead to the Chicken Ranch. Squawk!
Black Rock Monster Containment (BRMC)
Black Rock City has always felt like another planet, and unfortunately this year the planet is infested with monsters. True to the organized chaos of the burn, there is a department to deal with these creatures: Black Rock Monster Containment.
This creature in particular has taken a liking to destroying artwork, and we find him mid-destruction of a flaming tree sculpture. Never fear! BRMC is on the case. They have the monster contained in a net… well, mostly. Honestly he’s breaking out of the net, but I’m sure they’ll get this situation under control soon. It’s very safe.
Black Rock Observatory
Black Rock Observatory serves as a gateway to the wonders of the cosmos. The Observatory brings together thousands of participants to experience views of planets, galaxies and nebulae, sharing meteorites, and giving talks on a multitude of scientific topics. A beautiful wooden observatory dome houses an 8-foot tall Dobsonian reflector telescope, and several other smaller telescopes that participants can use to view the night sky. And there’s a solar telescope in the afternoon!
BRC Wheels on Meals - Year 12 Team Lysa
This is a vehicle pulling a trailer.
We have large BRC Wheels on Meals magnets on the sides of vehicle.
The interactive part is providing meals to the art builders.
Bumble-Bots
BUMBLE-BOTS are on a mission to POLLINATE JOY throughout the Universe. As colorful light entities from space, they studied Earth Flora, Fauna and Culture to appear in tangible forms to make us happy. Some of their data might’ve gotten jumbled across space, but they believe jumbled is joyous. They built themselves with found objects when they landed here on Earth. They hang out in their field of space flower pinwheels next to their cool hexagon spaceship. They hope their diverse appearances and embellishments will inspire new perspectives and ideas for anyone who stops by to visit and enjoy the many discoverable interactive modes they provide to increase sparks of joy, conversations, inspiration and lasting connections.
Burning Man Map
It’s a 4ft by 4ft map of Black Rock City. It is backlit and the colors will constantly change
BUS STOP!
This not only looks like a bus stop, it is a BUS STOP! Playa Tours depart from the BUS STOP! daily at 9am in our accessible adventure rig….visit the art of the Playa together with us!
Café des Sables Rouges
A traveler is lost in a dust storm at night. A faint light appears in the distance. It’s closer than it seems. The wind carries a faint jazz tune. Out of the dust, a structure begins to emerge. It looks like a café one would see on the streets of 1930s Paris. A feeling of Déjà vu suddenly overcomes the traveler. As they enter and find a seat at a table to rest, questions begin to form. Have they been here before? How long have they wondered in the dust storm? What year is this? Where are they? The music stumbles and stops…
Cardinal Gates
Cardinal Gates is about the passage of time and how life is made up of fleeting and ever changing moments. Our piece honors the cardinal directions and the sundials before them that have guided explorers for thousands of years. We are all explorers finding our way.
The gates are a pop of saturated color in the playa landscape. Up close, during the day, they create a moving story of shadows capturing time.
The flags are custom dyed vibrant colors of the sky representing our own personal mythology of the directions. You can find your way following each of the four cardinal directions – North, East, South, or West.
The flags are made out of upcycled, reprinted convention banner fabrics and metal poles.
Celestial Intertwinment
Celestial Intertwinement is a mirrored, cube-shaped installation that responds to sound with light. Standing at 96 inches tall, the structure features reflective acrylic surfaces on three sides, a red acrylic door, and a skylight that casts a subtle glow. Inside, yarn and resin elements create a textured, immersive interior. As visitors express themselves audibly, light pulses in response, projecting into the sky. Inspired by grief and cosmic connection, the installation transforms personal emotions into a shared, luminous experience, symbolizing the echoes of human expression reaching beyond the physical realm.
Celestial Mechanica
Celestial Mechanica will represent this amazing system at the humble human scale, affording us the opportunity to tangibly experience the precision, grace, and brilliance of our solar system in its entirety. As we soar through our solar system we are reminded daily of its omnipresence: the tides ebbing and flowing, the sun rising and setting, and the moon waxing and waning. We’ve relied on the heavenly bodies for centuries to navigate, to farm, to reveal our very destinies, but few have had the opportunity to witness the elegant movements of our solar system.
Chance and Choice
Chance and Choice is a three-part wooden installation guiding people through the randomness of birth, the complexity of choice, and the letting go of regret. Spin a zodiac wheel to receive a randomly assigned sun sign, then choose between three curtained doorways, symbolizing life’s pivotal decisions. The final stop is a whimsical yet tender cemetery of “could-have-beens” and “should-have-beens,” where funny and heartfelt tombstones honor lost possibilities. Optional journaling and meditation throughout the three parts invite reflection, embodiment, and acceptance of the strange, beautiful paths we traverse in this and other lifetimes.
Charlie Brown's RAVE TREE
It looks like Charlie Brown’s Xmas tree. The tree will be bright and interesting.
Chosen Family
The Chosen Family lounge area is a funky fantastic little place where you may just find a minute to relax with those beautiful Playa people that mean the most to you.
Chromosomatic
Chromosomatic is a sculpture by Rachel Rein consisting of 23 translucent lanterns representing the 23 pairs of chromosomes comprising human DNA. Each lantern houses individually addressable LED lights controlled by custom software. Each time Chromosomatic pulses on, it shows a representation of the DNA shared between one of the artist’s parents and someone in the world who was curious enough to take a DNA test and open enough to consent to matching with other people. Chromosomatic is a portrait built from genetic connections. The artist describes the sculpture as, “a conversation, a way of talking about my DNA research in the language of art.”
Colors of Compassion
A life-sized sculpture of a grieving female Buddha sits composed in a meditative posture. Her form is constructed from intricately cut steel in lotus flower, pod, and leaf patterns, lined with matte plexiglass that softly diffuses internal light. Solar-powered LEDs glow from within, cycling through colors symbolizing the stages of grief. The sculpture’s open form allows light to pass through the negative space, creating an interplay of shadow and color. The piece reflects the emotional journey of grief and healing, with the lotus symbolizing growth rising from darkness.
Commune
Biking in the deep playa, participants are drawn to a series of lights set in patterns that aim to attract from a distance. They find a beautiful dining table has already been set, with others welcoming them for a meal that will never arrive. The ambiance changes as they interact with fellow diners.
The piece itself is primarily a custom-built table for 8 with inlaid LED’s, a spherical centerpiece, and place settings affixed. Encapsulating the piece are 8 legs custom fabricated from metal tubing, primarily supporting shade cloth, a chandelier, and a beacon. LEDs will coat the beacon and chandelier, as well as run along the poles. LED Animations synchronize with patterns or sequences that aim to delight and inspire conversation.
Cosmic Cuddle
Step into wonder with Cosmic Cuddle, a 7-foot-tall, 12-foot-long illuminated cuttlefish. Its shimmering mosaic panels scatter vibrant light, while metallic accents add elegance. Peer through a tentacle-held kaleidoscope to explore shifting perspectives, or watch its ferrofluid eyes react to sound. A cozy netted lounge invites connection and reflection. More than art, Cosmic Cuddle is a reminder to believe in ourselves, embrace joy, and see the world with gratitude and possibility.
Crystal Cairn
A blown glass and stone sculpture of a hiking cairn.
Cubo de Tezcatlipoca : Tezcat's Cube
Cubo de Tezcatlipoca: Tezcat’s Cube is a large mirrored cube that reflects the desert by day and glows from within at night. Inside, participants find suspended clouds, soft ambient string lights, and color changing clouds—creating a dreamlike, immersive space. Inspired by the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca, the installation symbolizes the boundary between reality and illusion. The mirrored walls invite self-reflection, while the clouds represent the ephemeral nature of dreams. The cube acts as both portal and altar—offering visitors a moment of introspection, transformation, and connection to ancient myths reimagined through a futuristic lens.
Cup Commune
Cup Commune is a whimsical small little library filled with an eclectic mix of mugs and cups. The structure is partially built from reclaimed materials, featuring colorful signage, cozy seating, and soft solar lighting that makes it glow at night. Many of the mugs are handcrafted by the artists and builders of the installation. Each cup reflects the individuality of its creator and the spirit of communal exchange. The Cup Commune explores themes of connection, generosity, and the quiet intimacy of everyday objects passed from one person to another.
Dancing Queen
A larger than life dancer is balancing tall with flexible poses and pieces that react. Ringed around them, is a stage of sorts, for dancing, viewing, playing, standing above the ground yet below the muse putting us in the middle. The limbs and body are shiny and attractive with freedom to shake up the mirror bright happiness.
DEATH OVERCAME DEATH
ZAG’s art project “Death Overcome Death” presents the installation “The Winged Victory of Samothrace” created by Volodymyr Semkiv in Lviv, Ukraine, and exhibited in Black Rock City, USA. The concept of the installation reinterprets the iconic Hellenistic sculpture through the lens of modernity. Created for the Burning Man festival, the artwork symbolizes resilience, transformation, and the aspiration for freedom. Set against the desert backdrop, it evokes movement and grace, conveying the timeless spirit of victory in a world of constant change.
Democracy at Stake - a Tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the Running Fence
‘Democracy at Stake’ is an 18-foot-high translucent obelisk wrapped Christo-style celebrating the famous 24.5-mile-long 18-foot-high fabric ‘Running Fence’ completed in 1976. The ‘Running Fence’ project was highly controversial and had many public hearings and debates before its approval.
‘Democracy at Stake’ is on the path of the BRC Ultramarathon to honor the ancient herald Pheidippides who raced 24.5 miles from the Battlefield of Marathon to Athens with news of victory over the Persian army in 490 BC.
Illuminated from within, the wrapped obelisk provides a beacon to encourage BRC runners in their pre-dawn race and also encourages all people to run with the fortitude of Pheidippides, whether running with a message or running for office.
Desert Air Oasis: Breathcore 7
Desert Air Oasis: BreatheCore-7 is an immersive, post-apocalyptic art installation designed as a self-sustaining air purification unit in a dystopian future where natural plant life is extinct. The structure mimics an artificial lung, filtering air and capturing carbon while providing an interactive environment for participants.
Built in 2162, after the mass extinction of plant life, model BC7 has allowed people in the desert to survive sustainably for decades. After Air Tax Law 710-M, adopted Nov. 7, 2139, 7378 U.N.T.S. 92, rationing for air clearance allows the resident to choose the model of breathing apparatus.
Disco Snail
Disco Snail’s character captures the hearts of onlookers with its goofy and unique style. Disco Snail is not afraid to be its odd and authentic self, and encourages others to break out of their shell, to be brave enough to be truly seen for all that they are.
Cozy up inside of Disco Snail’s shell or enjoy the shade being cast from his whimsical mushroom friends!
Dispensing Influence
Dispensing Influence features a 7-foot gumball machine on top of a heptagon structure with steps leading up to the machine – like up to an altar. The clear dome holds hundreds of miniature heads, each symbolizing a Yoruba god in one of seven vibrant colors. Participants turn the metal crank, dispensing a “gumball”, a metaphor for how influence – divine, cultural, and ancestral – can enter our lives unexpectedly, yet with purpose.
DNA
What were, and what are, The Three Graces today?
Do you feel yourself bursting towards the sun?
Inside: a flame, a fruit, a flower.
When did it start?
Do you feel yourself bursting towards the sun?
Inside: a stretch, a crack, a filling.
Outside: the light peels back.
Ground pushes up with you.
Ash and soil and bone.
Don't Pick the Flowers
Don’t Pick the Flowers is a joyful piece full of fun and unique elements. During the day bright colors and reflective surfaces make the piece shine. At night the lights on the flowers create a delightful viewing experience.
Down the Drain
Dueling toilets
DROP
“DROP” is an intimate soft sculpture depicting an oversized drop of mother’s breast milk. Standing 16 feet tall and woven entirely from textile waste, the white fabric embodies purity tainted by environmental realities. The sculpture’s soft exterior matches its womb-like interior, illuminated by the pulsating heartbeats of real children. It serves as a temple-like space; visitors are encouraged to write personal messages directly onto the walls—expressing gratitude, memories, or concerns addressed to their mothers, or the Earth herself. Crafted collaboratively with individuals with special needs from rural Estonia, “DROP” highlights social inclusion, sustainability, the interconnectedness of it all, and the lasting impact of human actions.
Dust City Diner
If you see the neon sign of the Dust City Diner come have a seat and enjoy a steamy cup of freshly brewed coffee from our classic 1930’s coffee urn. Enjoy your coffee as you chat with the waitress while she takes your order. Our short order cook will griddle you up one of the finest grilled cheese sandwiches you’ve had in quite a while. If you are extra nice, your bee-hived waitress will even slip you a pickle.
Come find us, we will be in a different place every night.
El Diabla
On the first Monday of the event, Crimson Rose extracts a flame from the sun to light a fire in El Diabla, a special cauldron located in Center Camp. For the flame to continue burning it must be stoked, disturbed, and kept alive throughout the entire week. We encourage all those that encounter El Diabla to help keep this flame alive.
Electric Dandelion
The Electric Dandelion is a 24 ft tall dandelion sculpture that doubles as fireworks at night. The dandelion bulb comes to life at night as the LED animations take hold and mesmerize you with their bright and intense light show. Sit down and enjoy the lights or dance and see the beautiful geometrically designed metal and acrylic sculpture.
ENJOY THE JOURNEY doors
There is always something you see that can spark or shift your entire experience. ENJOY THE JOURNEY doors will be just that! They are interactive portals for self-reflection, meeting people exactly where they are, and offering guidances for shifts in one’s energy. A glowing “ENJOY THE JOURNEY” sign serves as a beautiful reminder but also invites curiosity for what does each door offer? Behind each door is a space for a person to check in with oneself and bring grounding, clearing, uplifting, and also fun energy.
Event Horizon
Event Horizon is a giant audio-reactive LED kinetic sculpture evoking a sense of cosmic beauty. Five concentric rings, up to 20ft in diameter, chaotically spin around a central spherical infinity mirror resembling a black hole, which is held perfectly still by a beautiful trick of mathematics. Beneath the rings, is a partially enclosed space surrounded by shimmering walls of light – a space to reflect, a space to wonder, or a space to dance. The entire sculpture is also audio reactive: when it hears a nearby musical presence like an art car, it converts into a cosmological dance floor that pulses to the beat!
EyeToTheSky
A triangular footprint pavilion 50′ on each side has dozens of cast glass prisms hanging throughout. The structure is a geometric puzzle of molded plywood pieces touching the ground only at the outer corners. At night the prisms are filled with washes of colored light.
F.U.C.K. A Stranger
It’s a large wheel of fortune that is made just for the Burning Man community. The wheel has 3 rings of markings around the rotatable wheel which correspond to a destination within Burning Man. You spin the wheel 3 times and read one of the rings with each spin until you have a full address. You grab a sticker from the fishbowl and go off to your destination to meet a stranger and gift them the sticker.
Fem Tide
Sixteen figures rise from the dust representing the constant light of human industry, the strength of women in community, and the impermanence of individual lives. The artist is eager to express her grief and love through metal arts and to incorporate playa dust as an eroding medium. The faces of the figures have been cast from the artist’s community, including people of color, queer folk, and trans/nonbinary people. The lamps that top these figures will be dancing for your pleasure. Touch one of the poles and watch the lights respond to you. Bring your friends and discover your collective rhythm.
Firebird / Ohnivý Vták
From open playa, a fiery mystical raptor originating from Slovak folklore calls out to you to take a hero’s-like quest that promises both challenge and reward. Ohnivý Vták sees you, traveler, from two glowing eyes inset a metal head with fire horns and a distorted beak. Inside its tall, airy body resides a metal heart pulsing with spirit light. Its talons dig into playa ready for flight, but first it awaits you to take your own transformation journey. With multi-colored wings of fire and pastel light and its tail of whirling waves that appear like feathers engulfed in flame, Ohnivý Vták invites you to contemplate your current truths and invent your future realities while playing with its wings or become like flame in motion inside its nest.
Flame Pixel
The main board of the Flame Pixel is a 10 × 20 grid of “Fire Pixels,” spaced a foot apart. Made of thousands of pounds of steel, black pipe, and solenoids, it stands over 30′ high when set up.
Floating Jelly
Floating Jelly is a wind-powered kinetic sculpture inspired by the movement of jellyfish and celestial bodies. Its central spine supports flowing appendages that ripple with the wind, creating an ever-changing, organic motion. By day, it casts shifting shadows on the playa, and by night, its reflective surfaces shimmer subtly with ambient light. Rooted in Chinese philosophy and Daoist principles of flow and harmony, the piece symbolizes adaptability and effortless movement. As a continuation of Magic Jelly (2023), it embodies the beauty of nature’s unseen forces, inviting contemplation of balance, impermanence, and interconnectedness.
Flower Kissers
A 3D wood filigree panel with hummingbirds celebrates the sacred magic of the pollinators.
Forty Winks Further
Why do we dream? Why do dreams become nightmares? What clings to us when we wake, and what happens to the dreams forgotten? Forty Winks Further explores the borders and boundaries between asleep and awake, nightmares and dreams, and present and future human scenarios. Interactivity forward, Forty Winks Further invites you to explore the contents of both nightmares and dreams through our whimsically designed representation of a bed, and the monsters that it holds beneath.
Fourplay
Fourplay is an interactive teeter-totter installation made from stainless steel. It features four seats positioned opposite each other and is surrounded by colorful lights and reflective stainless-steel surfaces. The design symbolizes the balance between individual contributions and collective outcomes, highlighting the ripple effect of actions and the importance of support and cooperation in fostering harmony. Ultimately, the installation encourages participants to reflect on their interconnectedness, promoting empathy and dialogue about equity and collaboration to create a supportive community environment.
Fractured Light
Fractured Light is an attempt at balance. There are two circles of pillars. The outer circle has eight points, like the eight pointed star revered in most cultures throughout history. Each pillar has designs cut into it so colorful light can come out and create fantastic designs all around. In the center stands a white pillar, representing the culmination of all the shapes and colors, coming together to form white light, or balance.
Framing the Future
Framing the Future is a booth with a roof, creating a capsule for a treasured moment between two people. Framing the art around it, and framing our connection to the future.
FREE SPIRITS
In the dust and flame of the Playa rises Free Spirits, a shrine for the soul’s shadows. At its core: a confessional with no gods, no gatekeepers—only you. Step inside. Speak the unspeakable. Whisper your sins, your fears, your forgotten selves into the silence. There’s no judgment here, only the echo of your own voice and the weight you choose to leave behind and leave lighter.
“Free Spirits” honors the idea that the path to freedom starts by being radically honest with the self.
Future Sketch
Create by yourself, or in community. In all cases, creating is great for the children in all of us.
Grinder Garden
Grinder Garden, a follow-up to 2024’s Space Grinder, features seven large, spinning mirrored spirals suspended in a dynamic cluster. This installation creates a visually captivating and kinetic environment, inviting participants to engage with the space and interact playfully. The experience fosters an atmosphere of wonder, flirtation, and surprise.
Guma
Step into a realm where the prehistoric meets the futuristic with our art piece, “GUMA”. This captivating installation showcases a magnificent dinosaur that seamlessly blends two eras from our universe. Its intricate design invites the community to engage with it in a unique way—walk along the back spine and feel the connection to the ancient past, or lounge within the belly of this extraordinary creature, experiencing a sense of wonder and exploration.
“GUMA” encourages interaction and imagination, allowing participants to bridge the gap between time periods and discover the beauty of coexistence. Join us in celebrating creativity, community, and the endless possibilities that arise when we merge the past with the future.
Hand of Fate
Hand of Fate is a striking 15-foot-tall kinetic sculpture by artist Andrey Sledkov, depicting a futuristic puppet-master’s hand suspended mid-gesture. Crafted from steel and polycarbonate with textured, sculpted surfaces, it merges industrial presence with surreal elegance. Ropes hang from the fingers, transforming the sculpture into a poetic symbol of tension between control and liberation. Subtle lighting enhances its silhouette by night, while its scale and motion evoke awe and introspection. Fusing contemporary sculpture, technology, and interactive design, Hand of Fate offers a bold and thought-provoking presence on the playa.
Haven
The heart of Haven is a magnificent nest belonging to Big Magical Birds (BMBs)—trans-dimensional beings that defy human notions of time, space, gender, and nature. Encounters with a BMB are fleeting yet transformative, instilling joy, clarity, and acceptance.
One such BMB arrived in our universe to lay its rare eggs. Unable to stay, it built its nest from the detritus of humans—scrap metal, glowing fragments, and shards of glass—infused with beauty and strength. The eggs lie at the center, needing warmth to hatch. Drawn by this powerful force, earthly birds gather as caretakers, and we, the Flaming Lotus Girls, have been called upon to use our talents with fire to nurture this shared act of creation.
Hey Queen
Hey Queen is a 15′ climbable art piece in the shape of a black woman’s head. The face of the Queen will be made of felt and other fabric arts, adorned with lights and face jewels.
She will have earrings that BRC citizens will be able to swing and rest in. She will have hair that will be full and soft, crocheted in different lengths and textures from chunky yarn that is bouncy and colorful.
Your eyes will be drawn upwards to see a Crown adorning her head. The Crown will shine with LEDs and reflective pieces.
The Queen will also have cornrows on the side of her head that will be long enough to allow for jump rope and double dutch. These cornrows act as rungs that BRC citizens are invited to climb so they may reach the crown.
Home Grown
Home Grown is a kaleidoscopic spiraling shell crafted from heavy timber and layers of pattern, color, and light. The outer skin plays with shadow and moiré interference patterns while the inner core is wrapped in a stained glass-like skin. As one moves inward, a third layer of the color story reveals itself along the inner surface of the structure. It’s a play between the muscularity of the framing and the delicate dancing radiance of this inner sanctuary.
Like the humble snail, we search for ways to carry our sanctuary with us. The spiraling shell shows how we too can transform our barriers into windows of beauty. We’re reminded that even our hardest shells can become translucent, letting others’ light in while sharing our own glow.
Honey, I shrunk the burner!
This is an Ames Room – an optical illusion where you can appear much bigger or smaller than your friends.
Hug Cabana
Hugging booth for interactive hug experiences.
Human Ostrich Art Gallery
As every seasoned burner has told friends in the default world, Burning Man is not just a party to escape from the real world: there’s art! At times, everyone wants to put their heads in the ground, and through art, The Human Ostrich Art Gallery provides an experience beyond merely hiding from the world. When one enters the gallery, they are invited into the joke as their body becomes a visual pun for those nearby. It’s also an important reminder that by sticking your head in the ground, you’re sticking your ass in the air.
I Ching O-Matic
A magical spinner stands aside a record keeping console that graphically tracks the 6 line results of traditional I Ching practice. The I Ching O-Matic has 64 wooden tablets that provide extraordinary details about any type of question asked. The oracle fosters experiences of deep relevance that might become valuable gifts long after the burn. Divination techniques done in a public burner setting allow for deep spirit messages to be shared with friends. Witnessing divination synchronicity in action generates trust and inspiration in the process. The results can touch people directly and tend to activate future off-playa transformations. The installation is under an accurate illuminated star map of the night sky on burn night.
I Have Dust In Curious Places
Dust is getting into curious places.
I Wish You Could See
A 10ft long scrap metal sculpture of a demon-looking creature with sharp claws, big teeth, and huge wings. The wings are open but curve towards the ground creating a shady spot. The creature is facing a person sitting in front of it, who looks like they are about to be eaten or attacked. It is supposed to represent facing your demons in some way, either to make peace, reminisce, or set out to destroy. This is an opportunity to face the awful things in our heads that cannot be adequately described but relayed through art. A chance to scream and yell at a physical manifestation of the things that haunt all of us.
If Six Was Nine
If Six Was Nine, is a free-standing minimalist sculpture resembling the numeral 6 or 9, but oriented horizontally. The sculpture can be rocked like a big rocking chair. The dimensions are 6′ x 9′ x 18″.
If Six Was Nine, is an abstract sculpture, of which its dimensions match its title, which describes its form. It’s also a big rocking lounge chair or playground toy
Illuminatrix
The Illuminatrix is waiting for you, the Illuminatrix is wishing for you, the Illuminatrix is eager to play. What adventures the Illuminatrix has in store! Is it a game? Is it story time? Or perhaps a descent into madness?
Inikadowa
An imagined depiction of the spirit twin of the Sarimanok, 15 feet tall, with translucent feathers made of epoxy-laminated recycled fabrics, framed in bamboo and powered by solar lights within to depict a glowing bird figurine from another realm.
Island of Lost Buoys
The Island is an oasis in the playa. It is a place to recline in our soft shores, swing in the hammock. Climb to the crows nest and peer out into the dust for approaching pirates. The Island is made of those things we humans have cast off. Transformed into a creative place of play. It is also a reminder of the what we can create when we reuse, and repurpose. In doing so, save the places we love that are being inundated with our cast offs, overconsumption, and pollution.
At Burning Man it’s a place of rest, to meet, make friends, and be children again.
Welcome Home.
Jukebox Country
This is the skeleton of a honky tonk with the beating heart of a working jukebox giving it life. There is a dance floor, a coat rack, and a place to set your drink. Oh, and a chandelier, so it’s open all night.
This welcoming dried-up watering hole invites all who wander to dance. Or just sit and listen to an old country song. Ain’t much else to it.
Kaleidostoop
A dodecahedron hovers above an octagonal platform, accessed by four inviting stoops facing the cardinal directions. Kaleidoscopes abound, inviting one to look within as well as outwards to other dimensions.
Exploring the dichotomies of analog and digital, personal and social, day and night, past and future, the Kaleidostoop beckons across the playa, offering infinite geometries connecting space and time.
Kauyumari Ceremonial Center
Kauyumari, blue deer in Wixárika language, will manifest in the Black Rock City desert as a huge deer handicraft, modeled after the one the Wixárika culture—one of the most important and resilient root cultures in México—creates to reflect their experience and rituals while in ceremony, in connection with the sacred peyote plant, the desert, and their ancestors.
It will be a ceremonial center that honors the grandfather peyote and Wixárika culture, cosmogony, traditions, and rituals, as an offering made in co-creation with the Wixárika community. Open workshops will be held with them and other artists to co-create the deer skin in collaboration with the Mexican community, inviting everyone to be part of it and set their energy and love into it.
Kiosk
Kiosk stands as a quiet grove of stone pillars, each softly shimmering with inner light. The formation evokes a ritual space, an architecture of intention where something ancient is being held-and something new is beginning to form. Visitors enter not a monument, but an incubator: a still, humming threshold where the future waits in gestation. At the center glows a pulsing egg, vibrating with unseen resonance, inviting a moment of quiet wonder and pondering for what has passed and what is yet to come.
Koja Ee? (Where are you?)
Ten feet tall, built from black and white painted wood, the structure rises like a quiet monument. Four staircases ascend from the north, south, east, and west, meeting at a central platform. Participants climb from any direction, their movements becoming part of the piece, mirrored by others. At the top, the platform offers a moment of pause and perspective, a shared space to connect. This piece symbolizes unity through individual journeys, with the black and white wood reflecting balance. It invites reflection on how we approach common ground, rise together, and see from above.
Lady Helene
Born in the Appalachian Mountains, Lady Helene is a sanctuary—an invocation for healing Humankind and our inseparable connection to Mother Earth. From her eyes, a slow drip of tears fall—an offering of feeling made visible. Surrounding her is a spiraling labyrinth—a tapestry of collective memory, woven from debris gathered from the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Helene—inviting those who find her to walk the journey inwards to a place where our grief is held, where we rediscover our kinship with Nature, and are reminded that no matter what—we are all in this together.
Let it Go!
The Ballerina is part of the Let it Go series and meant to inspire people to let go of what does not serve anymore in order to grow since life is not about finding yourself but recreating yourself.
The Piece stands 10 feet tall made out of wood rib structure giving it a vernacular look and allows the extreme winds that arise in La Playa. Some ribs will have Plexi glass to add colors to reflect. Silk fabric on the skirt add visual flow and movement. The cantilevered heart with strings appears as if floating and moving.
At night, the Ballerina will be surrounded by solar firefly lights portraying dancing in a twinkle garden in the middle of la playa. The heart LED colors mimics fire & serves as a focal point for wondering souls in the playa at night.
Life Trips
Life Trips is about us stumbling over inner demons and past traumas along our path through life. The bicyclist stumbling over psychology books is an allegory of my ex who broke his collarbone when his bike flipped over on a street grate coming home from my house when we were first dating. He is adhd, depressed, self loathing, and sometimes suicidal. However, he is also a wonderful gregarious human being, and fighter who’s picked up his bike and gotten back on the saddle. I want him to ride on towards life balance and happiness. I secretly want this for myself too.
I encourage you to write your life struggle with others and share any wisdom to break loose from mental shackles. Let’s help each other find balance and happiness.
Lit Saguaro
Lit Saguaro is ceramic representation of a saguaro cactus meant to be seen in the open playa.
Each of us has an aura, which we like to think of as a light inside of us. You can’t see, feel, hear, touch or taste it, but you know it’s there. We all have an aura, there’s no choice about that. What we do have choice over is the kind of light we transmit to the world. So it is with the Lit Saguaro, a collaboration between welder and ceramicist. It relies on its metal skeleton to hold it aloft, and is at once both sturdy and fragile. It lights the desert night, inspiring Burners to turn up and tune up their light within. May it inspire you to burn bright and long.
Loop
Loop is an analog human~powered rhythm generator manufacturing melodious moods.
Routine becomes revolution as the musical flywheel is spun by the spirited; motion generates emotion.
After dusk, the beats trigger lights.
Each evening a new arrangement is programmed into the mechanism; each day a new mood to be experienced.
Loop is an analogy:
The wheel, a symbol of possibility;
Traveling weaves a story, makes a melody;
Always changing, yet the same for eternity.
Love Tram
Love Tram will consist of a beautifully crafted wooden tram featuring intricate detailing that highlights the love story it embodies. At its heart, this art piece reflects the idea that love is a journey, not just a destination. Love Tram encourages self-expression and creativity as ways to connect more deeply.
Love Your Mother
Artists Elizabeth Laul Healey and Duffy Healey’s larger-than-life, eight foot plus mirrored Positivity Watch Dog sculpture invites people to not only smile, but to think. The saying on it’s chest says “Love Your Mother” with a large world globe serving as an obvious double entendre. The artists believe in taking care of our one and only planet, and believe that all people are one race and that we are all in this together. The watch on the dog’s collar is set at 11:11, a time of oneness, and a time to send positive energy into the world. The circles stand for community, love, and the reciprocity of life. The mirrors encourage us to self-reflect and that we all shine.
Lover's Tree
The Lover’s Tree is the perfect place to celebrate love, embrace a special someone, and build a moment. The Tree offers its hands to let you be held in witness of your community. It’s a perfect venue begging for a special moment or even a wedding. This piece was made with a lot of love to give it soul and beauty to celebrate the thing that truly is the most beautiful: LOVE
Luminary Love
Luminary Love is an interactive art installation that serves as a portal between today and tomorrow. Glowing with dynamic light, it responds to movement, symbolizing the power of love and intention in shaping the future. As participants step through, they engage in a transformative journey, leaving behind the past and stepping into possibility. This piece is a tribute to connection, hope, and the idea that the future is built with love in the present moment.
Mani Padme
Mani Padme is a 9′ tall, 5′ diameter prayer wheel with 32 vertical LED strips in place of the inscription. When a visitor spins it, complex, abstract images are displayed, making use of the motion and the eye’s persistence-of-vision ability. Simultaneously, Tibetan chant is played from 4 speakers all facing inward, immersing the visitor in light and sound.
In the day, visitors can spin the cylinder and see a 32-frame animation in a built-in traditional zoetrope.
Max Loads
Hidden somewhere in Black Rock City are two magical washing machines called Max Loads linked via the lost sock continuum. Max Loads is about celebrating silliness and whimsy; but most importantly, it’s about inspiring curiosity and adventure. As you stumble upon one washing machine and peer into its portal, you may find a new friend, a pancake breakfast, or even a beautiful sunrise!
Memories
Memories is a large-scale, interactive photo booth that transforms portraits into wooden discs, which participants can either keep or offer to the Temple. Each photo is also etched into a communal wooden sheet, creating a shared record of those who took part. Rooted in sustainability and the spirit of giving, Memories celebrates immediacy, connection, and collective experience.
Message to the Parents We Should Have Had
The piece is constructed out of wood and metal. The wings are welded wire covered in LED lights. The human figures in front of the wings are currently carved and painted wood, with additional LED lights shining on them.
The purpose of the piece is to provide a space and an opportunity to complete communication we have never been able to complete with our parents, or our children, in this world. A short imaginary journey to address what they needed, and let that child inside us feel heard. So they can move through it and move on. And be free to express more of the ideal beings we all have inside.
Minnie's Haberdashery
Whispers on the playa speak of a place displaced in time, a waystation known as Minne’s Haberdashery – no hats or robots allowed. Drawn from the stark and unforgiving past, it materializes in the Tomorrow Today landscape as a hauntingly familiar anomaly. What secrets do its weathered walls hold? What echoes of history linger within? Venture into this unexpected sanctuary and let your imagination bridge the gap between then and now, as the collective navigates the mysteries of time and the possibilities that lie ahead. All are welcome.
Mirror of Doom
A mirror that doesn’t reflect. a lamppost in the dark. Sand and dust obscures the picture but discerning eyes can see the truth.
Missing Link
Remember the magic of holding someone’s hand for the first time? This piece transforms that feeling into an interactive experience of lights, sounds, and vibrations. Stand amongst five beautiful, enormous humanoid sculptures, hold their hands…then hold the person’s hand next to you…and instantly experience the power of human connection!
MONA DIE! DIE! DIE!
Mona DIE! DIE! DIE! is rolling into Burning Man 2025, bringing whimsical wonder and a pinch of chaos! Marking the third chapter in the Mona saga after 2023’s pink Mona Bunny and 2024’s Mona Mushroom, this year’s 27-foot wooden sculpture of a dice boldly steps onto the tightrope between destiny and random chance, and explores the big, mysterious question: what does tomorrow hold?
A meditation on death, the adventure will culminate in the Mona Funeral March featuring poetry and eulogies, while enchanting projector lights transform the giant die into Mona’s fantastical visions. As grand finale, the giant wooden die will be ceremoniously cast and burned simultaneously, symbolizing our collective surrender to uncertainty and life’s impermanence.
Morality Emergency: Break to Indulge
“Morality Emergency: Break To Indulge” reimagines the Seven Deadly Sins as “Break in Case of Emergency” boxes, each containing a symbolic Burning Man cure to address indulgent desires. At the heart stands a futuristic chapel with a confession chamber, inviting participants to publicly confess their transgressions by writing on its walls. Surrounding the chapel are flags and a graveyard, leading visitors to the entrance with ominous warnings. In a near-future society where political and religious zealotry intertwine, judgment is no longer private but a public spectacle. At the end of the week, the confessions will be consumed by fire, purging the sins in a final act of redemption.
Moth
This statue captures the tension between Western trinity and Eastern duality. Three arms represent facets of human striving: will (weapon), understanding (knowledge), and exploration (lantern). These are expressions of the self shaping reality through action, thought, and intuition. Yet the two legs ground the figure in duality — yin and yang, light and shadow, life and death. The insect-like form hints at a post-human archetype, a being not choosing between opposites but holding them both at once. It invites reflection on the paradox of unity through contradiction.
MOTHER
MOTHER symbolizes a mother’s immeasurable love and protection through its flowing, organic form; reminiscent of water arteries, plant vessels, and human bloodstreams. The reflective surface creates dynamic plays of light and shadow, offering participants a visual and spiritual sanctuary. Surrounding the piece is a fenced space with rope posts and lamps, creating a relaxation zone. Cushions, Tetaphone music instruments, and designated areas for meditation provide participants with an immersive, interactive experience.
Mother Jelly
Find Mamma Jelly out on the playa, to rest and learn what she’s found in her travels. Completely solar powered, she shelters and protects under her bell. Don’t forget to look up and discover the true magic that makes her special!
My Notebook Dreams
An enlarged paper airplane made out of wood.
Free your dreams to the planet to make it happen!
Follow your dreams, do not bury them, let them fly!
Mycelia
Mycelia is a 15-foot sculpture of a woman’s head with mushrooms emerging from her crown, symbolizing growth, decay, and renewal. Her serene expression reflects the interconnectedness of all life and the cyclical nature of existence.
Nailed
Nailed is a life size coffin made out of cigarette butts cast in resin. It represents the way our choices to use substances or engage in risk taking behavior shape our experience of reality. This project is meant to inspire participants to think about the way their choices may enhance their life, while simultaneously causing them physical harm that may shorten their overall life span. Since cigarette butts are one of the most littered items in the world, this piece is also meant to evoke thought on how our choices impact the world at large and inspire participants to see beauty in the discarded.
Namaskaram
‘Namaskaram,’ as spoken in the artist’s native Telugu, signifies that the divine in me bows to the divine in you. Celebrating and exploring a part of everyday Indian life, Namaskaram embodies many meanings, including hospitality, respect, peace, and empathy.
Namaskaram is a sculpture of a bowing face, hands palms together, fingers pointing upwards forming a welcoming gesture. It acts as a threshold between the playa and the city, clad in painted fiberglass skin and adorned with ornate interactive jewelry. Its bindi becomes a celestial mirror reflecting the moon’s phases, connecting viewers to our place within the cosmos.
Namaskaram transforms into a mesmerizing scene at night, its lighted silhouette creating a striking visual signature.
Napahe Tunade
Napahe Tunade is Piute for Six Fires, which line the 6:00 keyhole and compliment El Diabla, the ritual fire of Burning Man, and the fire garden and Fire Conclave Convergence. Come and dance with the fire, perhaps roast a marshmallow or be mesmerized by the dancing flames or feel the calm from the flaming zen garden.
Navagunjara Reborn: The Phoenix of Odisha
Navagunjara Reborn: The Phoenix of Odisha’ is a sculptural installation merging two ancient mythical creatures from vastly different cultures. This piece stands as a beacon of resilience and unity, symbolic of eternal truth and rebirth, expressed through the medium of Odisha’s rich artistic traditions.
Richa Maheshwari and Jnaneshwar Das are collaborating with artists, artisans, and visual storytellers from Odisha (India) to bring this installation to life through their textile and craft heritage. The goal is to provide an international platform for these traditions so others may draw inspiration from them—creating a global community of support for the artisans to nurture and prosper their skills.
Neon Sistas
Four silhouettes, each a different neon color, each facing a different direction. Rescued from the desert patched up, trash can become art.
Nested Heart
Nested Heart is comprised of two cormorants, drying their wings on the playa. This gesture is representative of pausing after a triumph, and opening your heart to give thanks. This act of gratitude is a deliberate, reflective pause before embarking on a new conquest. We build the nest inside the bird, for people to find, enter, rest, and reflect on their own triumphs and challenges. Entering the nest triggers an audio loop of music, as a reflective companion and guide. The wings of the cormorants gently touch.
NewClear Neural
The NewClear Neural is a large-scale, faceted metal sculpture representing a stylized human head. Its design reflects a digital being—an abstract consciousness that integrates sound, light, and motion. Real-time audio input, captured by microphones embedded in the ears, activates intricate LED patterns across the cranial surface. Internally, a custom-built kinetic system—powered by a participant-operated merry-go-round—generates the energy required to illuminate the structure. The installation investigates the relationship between perception, energy, and the evolving architecture of human awareness.
Newton's Circle of Light
Newton’s Circle of Light is a cylindrical steel lattice structure covered with 77,000 programmable LED neon lights. It has an accessible interactive net canopy covering the top.
The structure is a canvas for an infinite variety of light patterns and interplay. Standing outside of it you’ll be presented with a semicircular view of ever-changing light manifestations. From the interior one will be surrounded 360° by the same light forms, as well as gentle ethereal mood music that will accompany the lightscape.
No Brakes
Take a ride through playa, twists and turns, ups and downs. But NO BRAKES!
Not Now
Ten interstellar omniscient observers have arrived on playa. They each hold out their very own ancient high tech device: The Cootie Catcher! What will we discover? Nobody knows.
Tomorrow Today? Not Now.
Not Today
A mysterious entrance appears to lead underground—but does it? Not Today explores curiosity and FOMO, revealing the illusion of hidden excitement. By presenting an entrance with no true destination, it questions the nature of expectation and immediacy. Not every hidden space holds a secret, and not every thrill waits behind a closed door. We also wanted to share a bit more new context at our project. Evgenii is a European science-based artist with a strong academic background, and together we’re aiming to bring a rare example of contemporary interactive art rooted in the European school — something that’s almost absent at Burning Man and rarely seen in the U.S. outside of New York.
Our installation will feature layered interaction scenarios involving sensors, embedded systems, and responsive behaviors. The piece is designed to engage participants on multiple sensory and emotional levels, and we believe it will bring something truly new and exciting to the playa experience.
Nova
Nova is a stellated dodecahedron slowly spinning on a wood platform. It was named after the exploding star. As the star throws off its matter, this art piece represents ideas generated during the creative process. Some will be lost to the ether but others coalesce into reality.
Now and Then
Burning Man in the year 2000.
One Tin Soldier
As you walk from the city deep into the playa, these objects slowly come into view, rising from the desert. Lost. Incomplete. A series of giant children’s toys…the closer you get, the smaller you feel. Everything looms large, as if you were shrinking, or it, growing.
As you draw near, the worn, weathered features and faded primary colors become clear. Past the giant children’s blocks spelling “LOVE” a monumental stack of four alphabet blocks invite you to climb and play. And then…old metal jax lay scattered, piled high. A giant yo-yo buried in the dust. And finally facing east towards the rising sun, a 24′ tall mounted, faceless wooden soldier stands guard, its reins a swing, welcoming you to ride with him.
Welcome to One Tin Soldier…
Oneirotica
A reflective orchid-star beckons us into its iridescent purple petals. Part shrine, part signal from the future, its mirrored petals form an altar from a time yet to come—a framework of reflection. Inspired by Nature on all scales—from orchids seducing pollinators to stars lifting our gaze to the pulse of the cosmos—Oneirotica reflects the merging of two forces that move us and move through us:
Oneiros: source from which dreams rise into awareness
Eros: life force, creative pulse, excitation
Here, at the cross-pollination sanctum, desire and dreams merge into a unified force, that of the Imagination, inviting us to follow its pulse and dream it forward.
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ORACLE
The Oracle is a 10′ x 10′ mirror cube designed for self-reflection and AI-guided introspection. Blending into the desert landscape, it creates an illusion of invisibility while offering an infinite reflective space within. Visitors can step inside alone or with friends to engage with Oracle, an AI that listens, responds, and sparks personal insight. The cube symbolizes limitless perspectives, breaking barriers between self, technology, and the unknown. A space of transformation, it invites all to pause, reflect, and explore beyond the visible.
ORBs
Plant creatures from the “Universal Dimension” are here to demonstrate just what they do! They guide, with an unobserving eye that is an ORB. Three ORBs total, all providing their own message through color. One may be gentle, while the other direct. Regardless, they’re here for us. And lucky for us is their timing, for they are in full bloom. With their colors up high and on full display by means of a glowing stained glass globe supported by a towering feathered plant body. This will be a total and complete “Demonstration Bloom”.
Our Ouroboros
Our Ouroboros is a trefoil knot-shaped interactive installation that embodies balance and renewal. The structure integrates touch-sensitive sensors that trigger flowing lights and evolving soundscapes in response to interaction. Inspired by the snake’s symbolism of transformation and the trefoil knot’s interconnectedness, the piece represents cycles of change and unity. It explores the harmony between body, mind, and spirit—past, present, and future—creating a dynamic space that reflects the fluid nature of existence.
Our Ouroboros is a large-scale interactive inflatable art installation with fabrication based in Brooklyn, NY. Created by artist Youtian Duan and computational designer Kai Zhang, and brought to life with the help of many others.
Ouroboros
Ouroboros gleams as a radiant paradox, a shimmering knot of mirrored polygons reflecting both beauty and hidden peril. Rooted in the ancient symbol of cyclicality and renewal, it embodies the tension between surface allure and underlying danger. Etched into its reflective shape, serpents and venomous creatures emerge, disrupting the illusion of perfection. As reflections multiply, they intertwine with the refracted visions of the city, participants, and surroundings, creating a shifting interplay of perception. A collaboration between Steel Tigerlillies (a women-led sculpture collective) and Bathsheba Grossman, the piece merges innovative design with intricate geometry, exploring the seductive yet treacherous nature of modern illusions.
Out the Other
Out the Other is a sculpture of a woman embracing herself. The piece expresses a struggle with the emotional impact of what we receive from others, focusing on the challenge of filtering out negativity to nurture a reliant inner voice that can allow us to heal from within. It also reflects on the inner landscape of feminine empathy in response to the heaviness of the present world. Visitors can step onto the sculpture base and speak into its ears. Using AI, the original words are reframed as a positive affirmation directed toward self-empowerment; the piece ‘hears’ the visitor and responds to itself in its own voice.
Ozymandias
Ozymandias is a monumental, metal head that emerges from the playa, giving the impression that a full statue may be buried somewhere deep within the earth. Ozymandias is the Ancient Greek name for Pharaoh Ramses and the piece itself is symbolic of the cyclical rise and fall of rulers.
Ozymandias is constructed using segments of aluminum tube, which are welded together in a tessellated pattern to form the shape of the head. The main light feature is an LED crown that sits low on the head, nearly covering the eyes.
The organic, geometric forms created by the aluminum tubes produce a unique shadow pattern on the earth. The tubes also serve as easy hand and footholds, so that citizens of BRC may climb and hang on the piece.
Paddle The Playa
Paddle The Playa invites participants to embark on a journey, much like a canoe trip through open waters, where imagination meets nature. As they paddle, colorful LEDs glow beneath them, and blue lights cast a soft wash over the ground, creating the feeling of gliding across water. Blacklight-reactive designs glow around them, adding to the immersive experience. Sitting face-to-face, participants feel the rhythm of their paddles as they become part of the landscape, linking their creativity to the vastness of the playa.
Param Excitatur
Parum Excitatur by Élvs (Elvis Ellis) is a dynamic installation set to debut at Burning Man 2025 in Black Rock City. Featuring painted wooden cherubs frozen mid-backflip, the artwork blends classical symbolism with modern ingenuity. Slender steel supports create the illusion of weightless suspension, while polished surfaces reflect shifting desert light. Hailing from Bristol, UK, Élvs invites viewers into a moment of joy, freedom, and childlike wonder, transforming the Playa into a space of boundless imagination.
PATCHES
Patches is a unique sanctuary hidden deep in the desert, a haven of eccentricity built from salvaged materials. Its patchwork design, an artful assembly of mismatched yet beautiful pieces, celebrates the imperfections of human existence.
Patches embodies the spirit of a desert-dwelling seamstress, weaving the universe together in her own peculiar way. Inside, a scavenger’s dream unfolds – a world devoted entirely to patches. Amid the ceaseless chaos of life, Patches serves as a reminder that we collectively hold the needle and thread of existence, stitching reality together one piece at a time.
Perennial Playground : BLOOM
It’s a playground that’s also a flower! BLOOM is the 4th and final chapter of Perennial Playground. In addition to the well-loved flower chairs and glowing garden beds, freshly sprouting this year are fortified climbing petals, illuminating stamen, as well as perimeter foliage opening into fuzzy kisses of floral swings.
Phone Booth™
After record profits during the 2023 fiscal year, Phone Booth™ is expanding its on-playa operations in 2025 to provide our customers with even more value. Tired of being easy to navigate phone trees and short hold times? Phone Booth™ can help!
Built around a 1980s PacBell phone booth, Phone Booth™ combines a critique of modern corporate dehumanization with moments of authentic connection.
Piece of Mind
Need a moment of quiet? A moment of self-reflection?
Piece of Mind is a light shimmering box from the outside, a quiet and cozy room on the inside. It represents a space for introspection, mindfulness, and connection amidst the excitement and energy the outside world. It is intended to offer citizens of Black Rock City a moment of respite, inviting them to engage with their inner selves and find a sense of peace. The use of sustainable and eco-friendly practices, such as the solar generator and ventilation, reflects the importance of conscious and mindful living. Overall, Piece of Mind is a physical manifestation of the belief that creating spaces for mindfulness and connection can promote healing and growth.
Pillar of Po Tolo
The Pillar of Po Tolo is an interactive art installation that pays homage to the ancient cosmology and spiritual beliefs of the Dogon people of Mali in West Africa. The sculpture transmits their knowledge of astronomy and sacred science through petroglyphs, symbols, and other indigenous aesthetics. It consists of a 25-foot-tall sculpture, 4 doorway portals, and 4 podiums radially spread out at 90 degrees.
Pitirre
Pitirre is a vibrant, interactive installation designed as an oversized bird, poised as if taking off like a rocket, inviting participants to join the journey.
A platform will allow visitors to climb onboard, symbolically taking a flight into space. Once seated, they will experience the unique call of Pitirre, immersing them in the spirit of the installation. Pitirre symbolizes the resilience of our people in Puerto Rico. Its design fosters a deep connection between humanity and nature, reminding us of our shared capacity for growth and the importance of listening to the natural world.
Playa Art Park
A park-like setting, an oasis on playa, a container for small art, a spontaneous sculpture garden. Lamp posts, park benches, bike racks and a little bit of shade set the stage for 15 or so art pieces within the size range of 10’x10’x10′. The Playa Art Park is open to all upon request in advance as well as being a lively spot for last minute walk-ins.
POD07
The space traveler is en route to Earth 2. Their vessel is lost in a violent radioactive space storm. Their escape pod crash-lands on this forsaken land—a moon of an unknown planet. They are thrown to the back of the pod against the locked hatch doors. The pod hull is perforated by numerous gamma-radiating shards, making its atmosphere increasingly toxic, as the pod AI companion’s worried PSAs keep warning them. Their only path is forward, through the pod’s cupola and outside. If they succeed, their only chance to survive is to brave the desolate playa and its strange inhabitants.
Polio Rodeo
We’re in for a hell of a ride!
The symbol of American Exceptionalism rides what should be an obscure bit of industrial/medical history. Problems we thought solved are returning. Progress isn’t just halting, it’s regressing.
And still people cheer. The spectacle is more important than food, or medicine, or knowledge.
What’s the point of fighting it? Maybe all we can do is hang on for a few more seconds.
Primitive Obsession
Primitive Obsession is an homage to the beauty of simple geometric shapes. The installation showcases a collection of digital works, including interactive games, crowd reactive effects, and live VJ’d music-reactive visuals.
The installation stands 12′ x 12′ x 12′ in an open frame, with the LEDs hanging freely from above. Revelers are free to enter the installation and walk around inside, pushing the LED strands aside as if in an inverted field of digital grass. Interactivity is facilitated by way of depth cameras and control podiums with arcade buttons.
Project Flashlight
Project flashlight is the joy of light at grand scale.
Pure, incredibly bright white beams, like fingers of god in the dust, contrast with the night sky, scale across the open playa, interplay of beams, light in motion.
Military/NASA billion-candlepower searchlights, reanimated for art and controlled by you!
PropanePunk
This installation is a curiosity. It’s meant to portray a bizarre machine from an unknown time period with an unknown function, and also evoke whimsy and absurdity.
In an alternate history, when oil was first being extracted, the explosive gases that pooled above it were seen as a liability. I’m interested in a timeline where these gases were deemed too dangerous to be useful. As such, they were burned off at the extraction site. Over time, bored roughnecks in the field began to build devices to harness this wasted potential. Spinning noisemakers and whistling tubes developed as different sites competed to make the most interesting use of this burning fuel. Eventually artists got involved and an aesthetic developed named propanepunk.
Proteus
Proteus features three large-scale masks, each three meters tall, arranged in a semicircle on the playa. The masks present faces with deliberately fluid characteristics that transcend fixed notions of gender, race, and age. Seating elements positioned within the installation’s arc create a space for contemplation and exchange. A subtle audio component delivers welcoming phrases in various languages, emanating discreetly from behind each mask. Referencing the Greek deity known for transformation, Proteus examines identity as mutable rather than fixed, inviting participants to consider the permeable boundaries between self and other. The installation offers a meditative counterpoint to the sensory intensity of Black Rock City.
Public Feeling Station
This is a place to feel out loud.
The Public Feeling Station is a participatory art project made up of two simple boxes: one red, one white. One for complaints. One for compliments. Together, they offer the full spectrum of what it means to be human.
The Complaint Box is a place to release what feels heavy—quiet truths, uncomfortable thoughts, the parts of us we usually keep hidden. It’s not about negativity. It’s about honesty. About letting the shadow breathe.
The Compliment Box is for the soft things we notice but rarely say—moments of beauty, small joys, gentle recognitions. It’s a way of splashing whispers of light into the world, with no need for a recipient. Just a raised frequency.
Each day on playa, a single anonymous submission from each box is shared on two nearby chalk boards—one from the shadow, one from the light. The pairing becomes a mirror. A soft echo. An invitation to see yourself in someone else’s words.
This isn’t about fixing.
It’s about feeling—together, in public.
Because honesty takes courage.
Even—especially—when no one knows it’s you.
It takes bravery to put something real into a shared space—
to let your truth exist where others might read it,
feel it,
recognize themselves in it.
This is a space for that kind of openness.
Not performance.
Not perfection.
Just truth, offered bravely.
Puzzling Evidence
Puzzling Evidence is a striking and thought-provoking art installation designed to express a powerful journey through grief, resilience, and finding beauty in life’s unexpected chaos. At its heart is an ordinary kitchen table, transformed into an extraordinary symbol of life reshaped by profound loss. Covered entirely in countless mismatched puzzle pieces, arranged randomly, the piece visually encapsulates the complex and often messy nature of piecing life back together after tragedy.
In 2015, the loss of my husband at just 50 years old, followed closely by my mother’s passing the next year, left me facing a world that was suddenly unfamiliar and fragmented. Each puzzle piece, sourced from diverse puzzles never intended to align, embodies distinct memories, unexpected challenges, and critical decisions made while navigating the path of healing and rebuilding. Though intentionally mismatched, together the puzzle pieces coalesce into a cohesive, beautiful whole—illustrating that life’s imperfections and fractures don’t diminish its inherent beauty. Instead, these flaws amplify our uniqueness and resilience, capturing the profound truth that we are beautifully broken, perfectly imperfect, and extraordinary precisely because of our flaws.
Adding an interactive dimension to the installation, the table includes subtle LED lighting controlled by an ARM processor connected to radar and microphone sensors beneath its surface. Encircled by chairs adapted for Burning Man’s playa environment, the installation “feels” joy when people gather nearby, glowing in warm colors, and conveys sadness through cooler hues when isolated. This responsive feature highlights the importance of connection and companionship on the journey toward healing and resilience.
Ultimately, Puzzling Evidence invites contemplation and self-reflection, encouraging viewers to embrace their own life’s puzzle—complete with gaps, mismatches, and unplanned pieces—and see it as unique and beautiful.
RAGE FOR CHANGE
THE WALL FOR CHANGE is a powerful and peaceful format for you to RAGE FOR CHANGE. There are so many things wrong in the world right now, politics, wars, health care reform, the need for peace, the government. Let your voice be heard!
Come to our 8’x12′ interactive art installation that burners can stand behind the cut out face for a photo opportunity of their face raging to change their favorite cause. Sharpies will be provided to write on the wall with your RAGE FOR CHANGE! The white wall will be already spray painted with a graffiti style body with a cut out face, the right arm will be lifted high with fist clinched skyward. The left arm will be outstretched horizontally holding the scales of justice.
Reborn
This larger than life mammoth stands towering over the playa marching into the future. It is made from stainless steel with an iridescent purple, brown, blue and gold heat treated patina, making it shine in the dessert sun. As we go into the future, we will be able to bring with us the ancient past.
Reflecting the present
A polished stainless steel tunnel of motion activated LED lights invites the participant to travel inside, where an LED floor will respond to sound, offering a dynamic and playful effect that twill ripple down the tunnel. The reflective surfaces of the tunnel create a sense of depth and dimension, which encourages visitors to explore the installation from different angles.
Resilience
Resilience is a striking A-frame installation constructed from salvaged materials, including a reclaimed barn roof removed after flooding devastated Asheville’s River Arts District. Murals inspired by Western North Carolina’s landscapes and culture cover the exterior, symbolizing endurance and renewal. Inside, a gallery displays artwork damaged or created in response to Hurricane Helene, reflecting themes of loss, recovery, and collective strength. Serving as both art and a functional storm shelter, Resilience embodies the power of creativity to rebuild and the resilience of communities facing unexpected disaster; because Resilience isn’t just about surviving the storm—it’s about what you create from the wreckage.
Return of the Dreamtime
Return of the Dreamtime is a painting of Moonflowers wrapped around a 6’x2’x2′ rectangular Prism.
We as a species have been mesmerized for centuries with the predictability and the power of a logical world. We have indulged an analytic trance forgetting that the left brain is only part of our beingness. We are beginning to remember and explore a way of being that tend more toward states of FLOW and of PRESENCE. As we remember and re-explore the logic of the DREAMTIME we find again that we are ultimately connected to everything, that we are all unique expressions of Universe, that we are all connected to each other.
As we re-explore the dreamlike nature of reality, we begin to wonder “What would it be like to lucid dream this life?”
Riding The Thermals
A kinetic interactive sculpture that depicts a redtail hawk circling 30′ in the air above the playa over a 6′ fireball with a redwood forest silhouette on it. It is surrounded by 6 tree nets whose weave invites the viewer to lay back and experience fire and nature in a new way.
Rinse & Repeat
“Rinse & repeat” is an oversized bar of soap meant to figuratively cleanse the playa and its inhabitants of any dust and grime they may be temporarily experiencing in life.
RISE & Friends
RISE & Friends is a 15-minute multidisciplinary performance combining dance, acrobatics, live music, and drones. The piece explores the first encounter between human and AI through movement, sound, and light. Drones act as both presence and mirror, weaving through the space with intent and ambiguity. There is no linear story—only shifting relationships between bodies and machines. The work suggests one of many possible futures, reflecting on collaboration, tension, and the unknown within human-technology interaction.
Rolling Right Along
Back with his signature recycled hubcaps, Mike “Hubcap” Collins is bringing Rolling Right Along in ’25. Using colors evocative of spring and childhood memories, the 7′ tall (and 7′ wide) arch of spin art painted hubcaps explodes with bright patterns splashing across their multi-faceted surfaces.
Visually enticing from afar, the arch will provide a natural visage, perfect for pictures, weddings and gatherings of all types. Brightly lit at night, RRA beckons you to stop and ‘step through’ from today into tomorrow.
Rose Wonders
Thomas Dambo turns trash into treasure with his giant troll sculptures, all made from recycled wood.
Rose Wonders
I wonder if it sleeps at night or if it’s scared of thunder
I wonder if it dares to dream, I wonder if it wonders
I wonder if it loves and if it feels regret and shame
And if it does, I wonder if to me that feels the same
I wonder if it understands and speaks at ease with trees
I wonder if it hums the melodies of bumble bees
I wonder if it knows the ground we stand upon is round
And wonder if it knows a shooting star won’t make a sound
I wonder if it understands, the world is a connection
And everything we do comes back again as a reflection
I wonder if it speaks, I wonder what it wants to say
And wonder if it understands tomorrow is today
Saṃsāra
In the future, humans will develop technological and spiritual ways to cope with the lack of natural fresh water. Saṃsāra is a sacred place for communal water worship. A labyrinth of curtains guide you to the Looking Well where one can turn the wheel to perform the ritual of water abundance.
Scintilla
Scintilla magnifies a tiny speck of the Black Rock Desert to allow exploration of the structures and lifeforms found at the microscopic scale. A little spark of life will be slowly revealed over the course of the week, illuminating how patience and timing can turn seemingly insignificant moments into stories lasting millennia.
Seahorsing Around
Seahorsing Around is a larger than life sculture of family of seahorses frolicking around on a coralreef head. The seahorses are surrounded by marine vegetation and showcase the fantastic ocean sites available in Florida.
Seesaw Organ
Seesaw Organ is a musical playground instrument in which the motion of a seesaw drives two bellows, which then feed air to organ pipes. Players control which pipes are sounding via handbrake cables that control valves inside air routing wind chests that also serve as benches.
Seesaw-Door
Seesaw-Door is an interactive installation featuring three seesaws, each created with salvaged doors and frames from Nevada junkyards. Embedded with assorted peepholes, the doors obstruct direct visibility while creating semi-visible interactions through limited sightlines.
This playground device becomes a metaphor for modern connection, simultaneously separating and linking participants. The repurposed doors and peepholes humorously challenge consumerist values. As a temporary Burning Man piece, it will complete its narrative through ritual burning, embodying creation to dissolution.
Serendipity Machine
The Serendipity Machine is a whimsical, retro-inspired installation that radiates color, curiosity, and a touch of mystery. Its playful aesthetic draws participants in, sparking intrigue and wonder. The structure stands as a gentle provocation for human connection, offering a moment of pause amid the chaos of the playa. Each interaction is designed to evoke reflection, emotional honesty, and spontaneous encounters between strangers. Blending analog charm with emotional depth, the piece transforms fleeting moments into meaningful ones, making space for surprise, story, and shared humanity.
Shots Fired Espresso Service - Coffee is an Art Form!
Our coffee shop is for the Builders of Burning Man. Trust us for a great cup!
Sinksphere
Material is all around us. The lost, broken, and forgotten pieces that once had purpose and meaning that fill our landfills and scrap yards get a second chance at a new life. We call this aesthetic “Jenk,” lying somewhere between new and garbage. Jenk, or Jenky, is that thing which is broken or doesn’t work quite right, but still works. A box of Jenk is that box of beautiful things that doesn’t work but you can’t get yourself to throw away. The Sinksphere embodies this ethos and draws people to the awareness that material is finite and still has value, when its beauty is recognized and showcased.
Skyladder
“SKYLADDER” is a captivating and thought-provoking art installation that transforms the space it occupies into a poetic exploration of the human journey and the concept of ‘heaven.’ This immersive piece invites viewers to contemplate the interconnectedness of personal growth, the pursuit of dreams, and the foundational importance of a sense of belonging.
At one side of the installation stands a sturdy, weathered ladder, reaching gracefully towards the sky. The ladder symbolizes the individual’s ascent through life, the climb towards personal aspirations, and the pursuit of higher ideals. Its weathered appearance suggests the wear and tear of experiences, echoing the resilience and strength required to navigate life’s challenges.
Solar Synaptic Dynamo
A source of eco energy, shade, and artistic perspective…designed by visionary artist group Temple of the Utterly Indifferent for an immersive curated ambiance inviting you to stay, plug in, connect and play.
Space Egg
Space Egg is a distinctive installation reflecting the artist’s experiences, designed to offer visitors moments of fun, community, reflection, and redirection. The 9.5 feet tall, 5-foot diameter egg-shaped sculpture is made of aluminum and stainless steel, featuring 48 translucent, multicolored panels that change colors, evoking a sense of endlessness. A rotating stainless steel exoskeleton surrounds the structure, projecting vibrant lights into the sky and onto the ground. This interactive experience encourages engagement and fosters connections among participants, inspiring reflection on their individual journeys.
Sphere Vision
The two towering droids, reaching for a luminous sphere, reflect the balance between creation and evolution, reminding us that while technology advances, it remains deeply intertwined with human intention and purpose. The sphere serves as a portal to the universe, displaying celestial and fantastical imagery, inspiring a sense of wonder and exploration.
Sporelight Sanctum
Sporelight Sanctum is an illuminated landscape of hand-crafted ceramic forms that glow softly from within. The pieces radiate shifting patterns of light that respond subtly to movement nearby. The work evokes the feeling of a living system—quiet, interconnected, and aware. Inspired by the hidden networks beneath forest floors, the installation explores presence, perception, and the invisible ways we influence one another. As night falls, it becomes a serene, luminous presence in the vastness of the desert.
Sssswhirlind
Enter the SSSSWhirlwind in the Year of the Snake. An opportunity for spiritual evolution from outdated habits, shedding outgrown skins in cycles of death and renewal, and finding an inner anchor amidst any storm. It is critical to remain grounded as change is challenging, yet essential for shift and growth. Snakes are keen, cunning, yet ruthless when provoked, and act as divine messengers and guardians of sacred places. They are revered for their charm, intelligence, perception, and healing abilities and intuition. No matter how intense the storm, or constricted we feel, the grip will release, the spirals will lose momentum and eventually still. The wisdom is in the eye of your storm. Trust the ride, listen for the lessons, and harmony and peace will find you.
Staircase to Exordium
The installation is a dynamic structure that blends organic and geometric forms, creating a space that feels both futuristic and deeply connected to nature. Composed of interlocking wooden elements, it rises in a rhythmic, undulating pattern, embodying movement and transformation. The spiraling form symbolizes an endless journey, representing personal growth, unity, and life’s cyclical nature. This tapering effect creates a graceful, rising spiral, emphasizing balance and natural growth. As light shifts throughout the day, intricate shadows animate the space, reinforcing a sense of fluidity and change. This piece explores the intersection of art and architecture, offering a vision of harmonious and intentional design for the future.
Star Love
Star Love is a tall cylindrical steel sculpture with silver-gray panels, inspired by cracked desert floors. The surfaces of the sculpture are perforated to cast shifting light patterns on the ground at night. The constellation projected onto the ground reflects the sky above Black Rock City, transforming the space into a celestial landscape. Star Love invites participants to engage with the cosmos in a tangible way, fostering moments of curiosity, connection, and wonder.
STOOP
It’s a stoop. You already know what to do.
Stormborn: The Tyrant of Lightning
Stormborn: The Tyrant of Lightning is an electrifying fusion of prehistoric power and elemental energy—a life-sized sculpture of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, composed entirely of sculpted lightning. This installation envisions the raw force of nature, where ancient life meets the untamed fury of the storm. The skeletal form is not forged from bone but is instead realized through the dynamic, branching patterns of lightning itself, captured in glowing arcs of energy.
Strand Burn Beest
A towering kinetic creature of bamboo, wind, and will.
Taziii the Playa Beest is no humble insect. Towering 20 feet high, forged from bamboo and wind, she is a kinetic force of nature—striding across the desert like she owns it.
Inspired by Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests but reborn in the Playa dust as something wilder. Something stronger. Something louder. Taziii fuses raw mechanical power with elemental grace.
Her every step activates hidden MIDI pressure sensors, triggering immersive light and soundscapes created by the legendary Bert manymanyhaha. As wind turns to motion and motion becomes music, Taziii transforms art into entity—a desert-born biomech with something to say.
She doesn’t crawl. She conquers.
She doesn’t entertain. She commands.
She is not art. She is the future of motion.
Kneel before Taziii.
Swords in Stone
Three swords of unity
Teddy
As a child, who does not love a teddy bear? The idea of a child’s toy oversized on the playa just makes me laugh. I still have my teddy bear stashed away somewhere, what better way of reigniting the thought of childhood memories in an oversized sculpture. I hope to have the participants reflect on past positive, warm, and fuzzy memories. Simple but fun and interactive.
Temple of the Deep
The Temple of the Deep is a sanctuary for grief, love, and introspection, formed beneath a massive black stone that appears to hover above participants. This dark, fractured element symbolizes the weight of loss and the strength found in healing, inspired by kintsugi, where brokenness is embraced and honored. Seven narrow entrances guide visitors through the journey of mourning, leading to a central gathering space mirroring BRC’s layout. Alcoves and chapels offer solitude and remembrance, while the seamless integration with the desert transforms sorrow into connection, grounding participants in shared reflection.
Tethered Together
A large, climbable, piece of ancient technology. Some call it a string art pyramid. Some call it a power plant or a vehicle. Either way, the frequencies are sublime.
The Arc of Loving
Welcome to playa, this Two-Word-Sculpture wrapped in mirror tiles, forming two letters that burners turn upside down to form the Arc of Loving: ME & WE.
We are creatures of Love. The Arc of Loving is an ode to the dance and interconnectedness between the individual and the collective. There is no one without the other. The turning wordplay and mirror tile experience – reflecting of light and of burners approaching – is an invitation to invoke participants’ reflection and a sense of belonging, wonder, and joy.
Tomorrow’s humanity is shaped by us all living into this question, today. Come, reflect and turn it upside down!
The Biggest Ball of Twine in Nevada
The Biggest Ball of Twine in Nevada is a ball made entirely out of twine sitting on top of a 1 1⁄2 foot platform under a pagoda. The ball is around 6 – 8 feet in diameter. It sits underneath an eight-sided pagoda, with each side measuring ten feet. Alternating sides are open, and benches adorned with CNC’d decorative additions will face the ball so that twine ball enthusiasts will sit and enjoy its sheer immensity whilst pondering, “Where did they get all that twine?” This project is based on a song by Weird Al, “The Biggest ball of Twine in Minnesota,” and in memory of our friend and former Manager of DPW Yellow Bikes, Andrej Kucher.
The Cosmic Carousel - "A Human-made Object for an Alien world"
The Cosmic Carousel is an interactive kinetic metal sculpture designed for human interaction and visual appreciation. Conceptually, it encourages organic teamwork through the collaborative activity required to engage with the sculpture. Its design invites people to work together, fostering a sense of connection and shared experience while offering a visually dynamic experience that evolves with each interaction.
The Exclamation Location!
The Exclamation Location! is a giant exclamation point on the playa. Here burners are encouraged to share their best Burning Man experiences with other burners in written and oral form. The best experiences of Burning Man’s past, present, and possibly future will be told and recorded in the Book of Excitement.
The Fire Hummingbird / El Colibrí de Fuego Pyramid
El Colibrí de Fuego / Fire Hummingbird is a pyramid-inspired installation rooted in Moche and Indigenous American traditions. A winged hummingbird at its peak symbolizes the union of earth and spirit, carrying ancestral messages. This structure offers a reflective space, where visitors connect with memory and transformation. Inside, Anais Azul’s music blends charango, fire, and hummingbird wings, evoking ancestral rhythms. This piece honors Indigenous resilience, the sacred cycle of life, and the unseen forces that guide us across generations.
The Garden of Hairy Nipples
One sunny afternoon with my dear friend sitting bare-chested beside me, I gazed at his perpetually erect large dark nipples, and the graceful long wavy hairs surrounding them.
Titillated, I knew that I needed to grab my camera in order to capture these erotic and unexpected hirsute beauties.
Inspired by the furry mounds and fleshy protrusions The Garden of Hairy Nipples has sprung forth.
The Gourd
In the beginning, there was only silence and seed.
And from the seed, there grew a Vessel—curved, hollow, perfect.
This was The Gourd.
The Heartstrings Canopy
Heartstrings Canopy is a quiet sanctuary in the open desert, where love is honored in its many forms. The space invites intimate ceremonies—moments of commitment, reflection, or spontaneous union.
Beneath its soft fringe and open sky, couples step into a shared ritual that is both personal and poetic. Each element—from the natural bamboo to the symbolic altar—echoes the beauty of impermanence, offering a fleeting yet unforgettable container for connection.
The Kudu
This stainless steel sculpture of a kudu stands alert and reflective, its form capturing the elegance of the animal in stillness. Polished surfaces mirror the shifting environment, making the sculpture visually interactive as it changes with light, weather, and movement. The kudu becomes both subject and surface, embodying the idea that identity forms through surrounding influences. As reflections play across its body, the piece blurs the line between object and environment, stillness and motion.
The Lightning Tower
The Lightning Tower is a striking neon installation by artist Pepemaniak, standing tall as a modern totem of light and energy. Crafted from hand-blown neon bars arranged in jagged formations, it mimics the raw power of lightning, casting an ethereal glow across the desert. The tower becomes a gathering point, evoking ancient rituals where people once united around fire. In a world of digital distractions, it symbolizes reconnection—an illuminated beacon of shared human experience, pulsing with life, movement, and transformation.
The Little Church of Thoughts and Prayers
Faith never dies.
The Lovers (T4T)
The Lovers (T4T) is a larger-than-life tarot card and a queer reimagining of the classic Rider-Waite scene. The art celebrates the natural diversity in sex and sexual expression that humans share with many animals. In tarot, The Lovers card represents love, unity and connection. Often interpreted as romantic love, it also means self love, community connection, and finding harmony within oneself. The Lovers (T4T) is about trans love, community support, celebrating trans beauty and joy in a world that tries to erase it. This art is a message of belonging on open playa, and a love letter to queer and trans burners to feel seen and represented.
The Lust Stop
The Lust Stop is the playa mutant bus stop. From its location in the deep playa, it offers BRC citizens an opportunity to board rides that might stop by and pick them up. We provide a route map of different bus/mutant vehicle services that might be in service with tentative schedules. As citizens wait for the ride, they can enjoy the comfort of a fur-covered bench and have shade over their heads as they enjoy bike-spotting in the deep playa day and night.
The lusty part kicks in at night where once getting closer to the bus stop Barry White and Co. tunes will greet you and make it a perfect sound track for a prolonged wait in a super comfy bus stop! Enjoy the wait!
The Man's Brain Project...
The Man has had a Brain each year since 2018. It is made during the Man build using wood scraps from its ribs. It is designed to be placed in the Man’s head, though instead, it travels the playa on a bike trailer to fill up with thoughts written on paper by participants. The Philosophical Center Potluck Noodle House and Lemonade Stand gazebo, on the playa, is its Home Base. The Brain is placed, and burns in the embers of the Man each year. The big idea behind this project is to create an opportunity to make the Man touchable and Participatory.
The Midnight Museum of That One Time at Burning Man
The Midnight Museum is a love letter to Burning Man art and artists. The piece is a collection of 155 faux stained glass panels depicting images of canonical pieces from past Burning Man events. The panels are presented in 31 pentagonal lanterns that are in turn arranged in rings of concentric pentagons. The project is also an assertion that the tradition of Burning Man art is an interesting and bold artistic movement in its own right; something that should be taken as seriously by critics and art historians as the notable art movements of the 20th century.
The Moonlight Library
Alone in deep playa stands The Moonlight Library, the haunting remains of an ancient cosmic library, now a romantic ruin. Only one corner remains intact, its towering bookshelves filled with weathered volumes, whispering lost stories to the wind.
The Moonlight Library serves as a metaphor for connection, resilience, and shared knowledge. Though its walls crumble, human stories endure. Each book represents a personal journey—one of joy, sorrow, fear, or hope—and together, they represent the human narrative.
This piece asks: If we are all books in the same library, why do we build walls that divide us? In a world that isolates, The Moonlight Library stands as a testament to unity, empathy, and the enduring power of human stories.
The Quantum Existence
The Quantum Existence is a twelve-winged, 16′ tall, metal geometric-shaped sculpture of a mythical falcon. The falcon is approximately 6′ tall on a metal half dome atop a 10′ metal base. The base will be approximately 5′ square and feature a variety of nomadic designs. Silhouette symbols cut into the sides will allow a variety of lights to come through. Four independent 8-10′ tall structures will circle the main sculpture. These four structures will have wind instruments that both the Playa wind and participants will play.
About once an hour after sunset, lights will travel from the base to the falcon’s torso and then out to each of the 12 wings. This is the symbolic collective awaking of the transmitter for the Universal Lantern project.
The Question
The Question is an 18 foot tall question mark that is placed in deep playa. It is the hope of the artist and team that the art can be seen as far away as the Man at night. Just like the theme, Tomorrow Today, The Question asks: Is it Tomorrow? Is it Today? Are you Here? Are you There? Are questions deep or simple? Life is full of questions that may not have answers.
The Solar Library First Branch
The Solar Library is a rhythmic repetition of triangular yellow huts with bright sun orange doors. The steel framed huts present solar panels at an ideal angle to the sun. At night they bathe in a soft yellow light reminiscent of the sunlight collected all day. Artists apply for a library card so they can build battery powered art knowing they have dedicated solar charging capacity reserved to charge their batteries. The mission is to remove the noise and fumes of generators from playa art without the proliferation of panel farms.
The Sphinx Gate
Know thyself?
Two towering Sphinxes with laser eyes invite seekers on an immersive quest to uncover hidden wisdom and unlock their potential.
They challenge everyone to be the hero, on a lifetime journey through their inner landscape to become their truest self. Our world needs us to be whole, creative, and connected!
Inspired by the Neverending Story, to pass through the Gate one must explore the depths of one’s being – through the lenses of Breath, Body, Mind, Heart, Destiny, and Community.
With art, technology, and the dance of playful discovery, a passage between worlds is woven. Seekers do not merely witness; they remember. Healing is not sought, but revealed, where the self and the collective meet in the riddle of the Sphinx.
The Transcendental Water
The art explores the Chinese concepts of ‘Yin and Yang’ and ‘无’, the void, through a sensory experience. A ridable central metal carp, crafted from recycled materials, appears to leap through a symbolic dragon gate, contrasting with static meditation seating. Smaller, dynamic metal fish arrange themselves across the playa, evoking a Suzhou garden pond. The artwork juxtaposes harsh desert with an implied tranquil aquatic oasis, organic life with recycled metal forms. Light, sound, and the arrangement of objects create a sense of unseen water, shifting the viewer’s focus from the tangible to the felt, the internal. It argues that inner reflection and transcendence are the unifying threads connecting all moments and individuals.
These Three Sisters of Fate
This sculpture revisits the modern Greek folklore about The Sisters of Fate. The Fates are goddesses who visit newborns and weave the tapestry of their life to come. The Fates ultimately determine the events of this new person’s future. They decide when to cut the cord of the tapestry marking a person’s death. This is a tale about the poignant balance between destiny and free will, and mysteries that lie beyond understanding.
This Blows*
A decorated windsock, a well-known playa landmark for every crusty burner to enjoy. It serves as a well-known wind speed and orientation indicator for all aviators around. Black Rock Citizens wishing to watch skydivers land can use the windsock to orient themselves for the best view.
Thread
Thread is an immersive and sculptural experience that evokes the expression of human connection through touch-driven interactivity and illumination. The sculpture invites participants to explore, connect with one another, and reveal the secrets of the piece.
Thread is about the beauty and resilience of meaningful relationships. Relationships—romantic, platonic, or undefined—are constantly evolving, shifting between closeness and distance, ease and tension. Yet, even as lives diverge, a subtle thread of connection persists. It is a tribute to the profound experience of reconnecting with someone significant, as if no time has passed—reminding us of the beauty and power that lie in these lasting bonds.
Tim's Bench
In the words of Tim Green, “there are never enough fucking places to sit at these things.”
In honor of their father, two sisters and their family created three art benches. He was a burner for decades, Dad to many, and a kind and generous man. Tim’s wish was to offer a place to sit and enjoy the view. As a testament to their family values, they are building a seat for you to be comfortable, inspired, and welcomed.
The animal bench is their version of his animal art bikes.
The Green bench is for you to write on and leave your mark.
The flower bench is a representation of how he decorated his camp.
The walk home is always longer than you expect. The lessons of simple, supportive art and “rest when you need it” are more important than ever.
Tiniest Temple of Tomorrow
The Tiniest Temple of Tomorrow; it’s small, but bold! Feel free to interact as you please: dance, sing, speak, eat, take your tourist photo with the temple, proclaim… Maybe the inspiration for a future burn theme? “Tiny Man”? the big stuff still rules, but 1 year of Tiny might be just weird enough to work.
Tinspider redux
The Tinspider is a walking dwelling that utilizes Theo Jensens strandbeast leg geometry for mobility. It’s a proof of concept for a work and living space that can provide comfort and mobility in the most extreme environments.
Tipping Point
Tipping Point illustrates the current contest between rule-by-law and rule-by-tyranny. Participants can weigh-in by stepping onto this giant scale, either on the side with the greats of law and philosophy, or on the side with historical and modern-day tyrants.
Together We Glow
The chaos within. Finding simplicity in a complex world. A peaceful cube on playa opens up with a complex inner cosmos that glows up and shines over the horizon. The mesmerizing movement of the strings in the wind could lead the thought to it being a portal. But where would you rather go? So just enjoy this small neon bonfire and enjoy the dust.
Trash Fence Panda Portal
While wandering along the trash fence, you happen upon what looks like a double-sized dumpster fire, and then realize you can crawl into the Trash Panda Portal. You find you have been transported into a cozy raccoon world of fluffy “trash”, homey art, and a portal to another dimension. There is a hole in the side that you crawl through to find a cushy space to chill in a raccoon’s home. We invite participants to live like raccoons for a few moments and experience what their lives may be like inside a dumpster. Many connections will be made as participants marvel at the portal (infinity mirror) and cuddle with the trash pillows. We welcome all woodland and trashy creatures (but leave no trace)!
Trichotomy
Trichotomy is a series of three platonic solids, constructed of identical triangles, with a lily silhouette cut out of the center of each triangle. The lilly glows from internal lights when night falls on the playa, casting its shape on the dust. In many cultures and customs lilies represent life, death, rebirth, and love. The solids are different sizes, with the smallest easily flipped from side to side by one person and the largest needing more than one person to roll. As the solids move around the playa, they leave their stamp in areas that have accumulated an impermanent layer of dust – until it blows away – evoking the transient nature of life, death, rebirth, and love.
Un nuevo camino
Child and parent in space suits who are carrying their home town in their backbacks while seeking a better future. The child leads the way.
Made of steel with lights everywhere.
Unleashed
Unleashed is a 10-foot-tall balloon dog sculpture wrapped in mirrored disco tiles that shimmer and distort everything. The reflections shift and ripple, inviting moments of self-recognition and surreal transformation. A spiked LED collar glows in rainbow hues, with a leash going nowhere, highlighting the tension between control and rebellion.
A playful response to Burning Man’s no-dog policy, Unleashed conjures a magical, untamed stand-in. It asks: What happens when we see ourselves refracted, distorted, and multiplied? Through light, illusion, and humor, Unleashed becomes a mirror for the wild parts of us waiting to break free.
Untitled (In Love and Healing: A Temple for Emi)
“Untitled (In Love and Healing: A Temple for Emi)” explores connection, healing, and harmony through an immersive installation honoring life’s energy. The structure offers a contemplative yet celebratory space. It embodies balance by bridging the ancient and the modern. The work provides a setting for reflection and ceremony. It highlights the intertwined nature of personal and collective journeys and emphasizes the power of healing and shared experience.
Uppy Downy
All around the globe, vast, beautiful lands invite blissful wandering—until a manmade barrier (fence, wall, etc.) halts forward movement. After a moment of dejection, a discovery: someone, at some point, built a simple staircase or ladder for easy, safe passage. The dictionary calls it a stile; we call it an “uppy-downy.” Sure, there are harder ways to cross, but using this small, thoughtful creation sparks a whimsical joy—and gratitude for the unknown soul who – at some point in history – made the journey smoother for everyone else.
VERTICA
VERTICA is a towering, triangular stainless steel sculpture inspired by Brutalist architecture. Its sharp, geometric form creates an illusion of infinite height through three-point perspective. Mirrored surfaces reflect and distort the surrounding environment, blurring the line between observer and participant. A hidden entrance leads to an immersive interior, where a central ladder stretches upward, symbolizing relentless ambition. Small ascending windows enhance the sense of scale, while shifting LED lights pulse with changing colors, representing technological and societal transformation. VERTICA serves as both a beacon of progress and a cautionary monument to its consequences.
Vessels of Love
Vessels of Love, crafted by Alberto Marcos (Amps) and the Vessels of Love collective, is more than just an art installation; it’s a celebration of connection, joy, and infinite love.
This breathtaking double slide structure is shaped as an infinity heart symbol, radiating love and positivity throughout the desert. At its core, this piece is designed to foster joy, playfulness, and communal engagement, inviting everyone to experience the thrill of sliding down into a space of shared happiness and connection.
The art piece Vessels of Love is understanding that love is never linear, but through love, infinity can be achieved.
Standing in the deep playa, and approachable from the distance, an infinite love will be waiting for interaction.
Vibrations
Vibrations is a space to feel, not just hear. As sound travels through the air, it also moves through the body, creating a connection beyond words. Sitting inside, waves of resonance ripple through the structure, wrapping participants in a symphony of touch and tone. The hum of the pipes, the glow of the lights, the presence of others—everything becomes part of the experience. It is a reminder that energy is shared, that every action sends ripples through the world, and that we are all part of a greater harmony, bound together by unseen forces of sound, motion, and human connection.
VitalLink
A 9-foot aluminum cube stands as a futuristic wireframe structure, with a glowing heart suspended in its center. From each vertical post, a mannequin arm extends outward at hand-shaking height, palm open. When touched, the arms sense the participant’s heartbeat, triggering light to flow up the cube and into the heart. The heart glows and pulses in real time, visually syncing with the rhythms of those engaged. As more people connect, the lights intensify and evolve, creating a living display of collective energy. The piece explores the idea that, like music, light may also synchronize us, inviting reflection on connection, rhythm, and the unseen pulses that link us together.
Voice Portal
Voice Portal merges technology, nature, and human interaction. It features a captivating holographic mesh projection within a 10-foot-tall circular frame, crafted from laser-cut and engraved MDF wood pieces. This living artwork responds to the elements of the desert and to participant engagement. The installation also interacts with visitors; a front-facing microphone captures sounds, allowing the hologram to conduct this ethereal symphony. Each word, hum, or song triggers transformations in the holographic forms, encouraging collective creation. This fusion embodies the essence of Burning Man, where creativity, connection, and the natural world merge into an awe-inspiring experience.
Voxelite
Voxelite transforms three-dimensional space into a canvas of light, responding to interaction with rippling patterns that seem to communicate in a visual language all its own. No two encounters are identical, as this photon playground dialogues with those who discover it—every visit revealing a different pattern within its luminous architecture. Venture into a realm where light doesn’t just shine—it breathes, dances, and plays.
The structure is an aluminum tripod suspending the centerpiece 10′ from the ground to a height of 24′. The floating volume contains over 20,000 LEDs in a hexagonal profile, with six complementing stations at ground level, inviting approach with glowing bands of light.
Waves into Skies
Every person spends a lifetime on earth creating waves of light and sound. We create these waves to communicate and express ourselves. They travel infinitely into space, but at the same time are fleeting and impermanent.
This art piece is an exaggerated representation of those waves we create, an invitation to create more of the infinite and impermanent.
Well?
Well? is a solar powered oil pump jack with sitting areas and shade for people to contemplate and discuss our energy future. Reach goal: the pump head may, at times, have a spigot that dispenses dark rum.
What Lies Beneath?
The sail of an ancient submarine rises up out of the playa as if surfacing from the lakebed. Or did it sink, to be mostly covered? And what of the crew? Controls & instruments are seemingly not of human scale or design. What happened here? Climb onto the lower deck,& enter mid level or through a hatch door. Inside the sail, use steering station, periscope, and wonder at odd furnishings, gauges, controls. Illusion is the ship crew may not be entirely human or from a different time/dimension. Climbing interior ladder to a hatch, they reach the top deck, and wonderful elevated view of playa. Lounge on lower deck with portholes that show inside the hull to ponder where this vessel came from.
When We Were Young
School-yard tetherball executed at three times the normal size. True-to-proportion upscaling with minimal frills. Heavy equipment tire bolted to 35′ utility pole with 4′ wide custom-made giant tetherball just waiting to be thrown around.
Participants are invited to play a classic game from their past with the dramatic size transforming the play experience. With an unknown future bearing down, what else has changed since our youth?
Whirl of Art
A communal project consisting of kinetic sculptures, designed & built by local burner communities of Texas, atop decorated mini art galleries showcasing works of individual burner artists, with sculptures’ motion powered by a merry-go-round. Whirl of Art represents the meaning of artistic synergy, producing a combined effect that is greater than the sum of separate effects, the creation of art as a communal journey.
Wings of Resonance
A massive butterfly climbs from a geometric chrysalis of mirrored panels and glowing LEDs, capturing a moment of profound transformation. Wings of Resonance blends op art and sculpture using recycled vinyl records to form the butterfly’s wings, symbolizing the frequencies we emit through thoughts, words, and actions. The mirrored surfaces reflect both the viewer and their surroundings, illustrating how we shape one another’s evolution. By day, it glints in the desert sun; by night, it glows with infinite light, echoing the beauty born through connection, intention, and change.
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