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Drama in the Desert by Holly Kreuter5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Imagine diversity coexisting with common ritual - ritual based on radical free expression and purification by fire. Imagine walking into any jazz joint or grilled cheese stand, or getting your hair washed or your feet massaged, and your money is no good because this town operates on a gift economy. Imagine folk costumed in everything and nothing imaginable. Imagine strangers who would read to you from William Carlos Williams, offer you a snow cone or a Margarita. Imagine the only vehicles in the streets are art cars, like behemoth metal dragons spouting fire and spaghetti western covered wagons. Multimedia immersion into the Burning Man culture. ![]() Read on for Rerekuka's review of Holly Kreuter's book about the festival.ĭrama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man Imagine art born from 25,000 of your closest friends, from you, lining the streets and filling the dustbowl playa: a radiant cathedral built from recycled plastic "stained glass," a filigreed temple-mausoleum filled with messages to friends who have passed on, a coffin made of gun metal, a Tesla coil taunted by a wacky scientist, an art and philosophy-lined labyrinth, oases sprouting lawns and ferns." There's been a lot written about Burning Man I especially like Bruce Sterling's report about it for Wired in 1996. Rerekuka writes "Imagine your home town is built on a moonscape, epic in cracked earth, hard sun, dust storms, thunderstorms, rainbow sherbet sunrises and tie-dyed sunsets that move you and your neighbors to applause. ![]()
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