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Waking Dreams
From the burning man site:
"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky;
then I awoke. Now I wonder:
Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly,
or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"
Zhuang Zi
The 2022 Burning Man theme will explore the transformative power of dreams, both literal and figurative, and celebrate the dreamers who channel this potent energy in eye-opening, often surrealistic, sometimes life-changing ways. Because after all what is Black Rock City if not a collective manifestation of the community’s dreams?
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Building a Phoenix
i didn't build this sculpture for Burning Man. I built it because my house burned down along with those of thousands of others in a blink of an eye one thursday morning in November. Our home didn't last 6 hours into the blaze. What is a burner to do...
The phoenix bird is a mythical bird from Greek mythology. ... The classical, mythical imagery and symbolism of resurrection, of life reborn anew and transformed, resonated with the Christian story. The phrase rise like a phoenix from the ashes is often shortened to rise like a phoenix, or even rise from the ashes.
- Wikipedia
I lost my home in the 2018 Camp Fire that until then had been the most costly fire in terms of lives and property loss in the state of California. After we knew our home was gone I had a thought while using a putty knife that it had a lot of them up in Paradise but all without handles, then that it would take a lot of tools to rebuild the town. The thought of building a Phoenix from the burnt up tools from my house (and later many others) followed almost immediately. From that time on, my wife and I revisited Paradise about a dozen times to find tools and silverware from the ashes.
This didn't begin as a burning man project, but since my year revolves around that event, it is a natural that I would try to take it this year. As I type this, the Covid-19 Pandamic is racing around the world, and I don't know if burning man will happen this year. The Phoenix will be built even if it never makes the long trip to the desert.
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