With temperatures pushing over 120ºF on the playa floor of Black Rock City, survival requires a place to catch shade and rest.

Weaving around a series of static elements, this sculptural space was created using fifty bamboo stalks.

To create the strength needed to withstand gusting winds and dust storms, they were lashed together and triangulated, with an element of redundancy.



This redundancy not only provided stiffness, but it also allows for very small members to support great weight in a mysterious manner that the mind cannot easily track.



At the end of the event, all elements were burnt; so as to allow the entropic nature creation to come full-circle.

PROJECT: burning.man.shade.catcher
CLIENTS: just playing around
LOCATION: black rock city [gerlach], nevada, burning man
SIZE: 18-feet tall x 40-feet long x 24-feet deep
DATE: August 2005