We’re losing breath. Black lives matter, how could they not. He says I can’t breathe, and my throat closes in sympathy. How have we ignored the numbers stacked against those with darker skins than mine for so long? I think of the campaigns and reports written over the years, of the hundreds of hours of … Continue Reading
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Transforming Digital Art & Experience In The Multiverse
How do you dive into the Immediacy and Serendipity of the Burning Man Multiverse when your eyes function differently? Burning Man culture invites us to place ourselves in strange situations and crazy constraints, to express ourselves with immediacy and a spirit of gifting and communal effort. How do these principles survive when our community’s magic … Continue Reading
Catharsis & Sound
Blind Burners was conceived in 2019 as we planned our trip to Black Rock City, Nevada. Our ideas really began to take shape in Spring 2020. On April 20th, our friends at Burning Man Project (‘BMP’) announced that Black Rock City in 2020 would not be built in the physical world. It would, however, be … Continue Reading
Art on Fire Again – from Francis Bacon to Embrace
Fire: its emotional intensity, potency in rebellions, and insistence on transformation, are key to my experience of Art and its opening of new possibilities. Perhaps not surprising for a kid making his way to the fire-splashed playa from York, a Northern English town infamous for raising Guy Faulkes, whose plot to blow up the Houses … Continue Reading