For it is a visual chronicle that details beauty, inspiration, creativity, unfettered living and. With a foreword by temple designer and artist David Best and a futureword by Founding Board Member Marian Goodell. NK Guys Art of Burning Man is a true gift to Humanity. The result is testimony to a realm far beyond the ego, commerce, and power play of mainstream cultural it is one of the most pure, uninhibited, expressive centers of our time. His dazzling images record these participatory, collective, intrinsically ephemeral installations and happenings in the desert, which exist for no clearer purpose than because someone wanted to express something. In this updated edition with fresh images, writer and photographer NK Guy presents 16 years of Burning Man art. Burning Mans humble beginning, in which one wooden figure was burned, has evolved into an event featuring hundreds of art installations, including fire art made with pressurized gasses, digitally controlled explosions and pyrotechnics. It’s also the incubator of some of the most remarkable site-specific outdoor art ever 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. In this updated edition with fresh images, writer and photographer NK Guy presents 16 years of Burning Man art. Baked by the sun, and blinded by dust, the gathering acquires different meanings for different temporary community, spiritual adventure, performance stage, desert rave, social experiment. Art of Burning Man Second Edition by NK Guy. 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. 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.

Art of Burning Man by N.K. Guy