These photos were taken during the building of "The Fire of Fires", an ornate temple built in Nevada's Black Rock Desert for Burning Man 2009. This piece was built by Community Art Makers, an arts collective based in Austin, Texas. I lived in the desert with the crew for 28 days, helping to build and document the project.
Resolution Clock was a 34-foot tall wooden clock built in Austin's Auditorium Shores park for the city's 2008 New Year's Eve / First Night celebration. Located just across the river from downtown, the fully functional clock provided park visitors with the opportunity to write down their thoughts and resolutions for the new year. A crowd of over 80,000 cheered and watched in amazement as Resolution Clock was set ablaze.
These photos were taken at the Burning Flipside festival between 2004 and 2008. This annual gathering of free-spirits and free-thinkers is influenced in part by the Burning Man Project and takes place in Central Texas.
