![]() In this updated edition with fresh images, writer and photographer NK Guy presents 16 years of Burning Man art. It’s also the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever made: a mechanized fire-breathing octopus, a towering wooden temple 15 meters tall, and the eponymous Man himself-a skeletal sculpture set ablaze at the event’s conclusion. Baked by the sun, and blinded by dust, the gathering acquires different meanings for different people: temporary community, spiritual adventure, performance stage, desert rave, social experiment. This is the surreal and amazing site of Burning Man. ![]() Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of each summer, when a temporary city rises out of the barren clay. ![]() The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years. The Burning Man Festival – One hundred miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. ![]()
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