![Surreal art installation in Nevada desert](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2008-Sunset-Illusion-by-Benson-Trent-inflatable-balloons-art1.jpg)
Illusion is a light art installation of 64 large weather balloons. The size of the field installation creates a feeling of immense undiscovered desert space as visitors walk through an area of couple football fields. Light effects are programmed to … Continue reading
![going up in flames](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2008-Final-Burn-Saturday-Night-Desert-Art-Festival-Black-Rock-City-BRC-photo-pics-pictures-image-Gerlach-NV1-108x198.jpg)
Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. – Harry Houdini
![shooting fires and flames art installation](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2008-Mutopia-Metal-Welded-Installation-by-Flaming-Lotus-Girls-Early-Morning-Sunrise-Black-Rock-City-photo-picture-image1.jpg)
Mutopia is a metal flower garden of thirteen giant spiraling plants interconnected by a long umbilical-like root structure. This metal art installation demonstrates new evolutionary concept of intentional controlled evolution.
![Burning Man body painting](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2008-Body-Painting-Hot-Beautiful-Girl-Girls-Woman-Women-paint-model1-121x198.jpg)
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain
![Walking musicians](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2008-Big-Band-musicians-girls-women-dancing-people-photos-pictures-pics1-139x198.jpg)
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. – Plato
![Aerialists girls](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2008-Aerialists-Hot-girls-woman-women-aerialists-on-Elevation-Tower-American-Dream-Ballet-Dancers1.jpg)
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are – politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings. – Laurence Olivier
![The is the very edge of playa borders](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2008-The-End-of-playa-sign-by-Bob-Marzewski1.jpg)
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. – Tom Stoppard
![Woman with ubrella climbing the art installation](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-Girl-Climbing-Elevation-Tower-by-Michael-Christian1-132x198.jpg)
Elevation art installation tower is a fully climbable metal installation constructed of winding tube steel ladders that elevate to a seated perch for one on its peak, at 54 feet. Climbing is unadulterated hard labor. The only real pleasure is … Continue reading
![Burning Man Girl dancing next to the End sign](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/The-End-by-Bob-Marzewski-Burning-Man-2008-American-Dream-Dancing-Girl1.jpg)
Now when looking at this photo feels like not just the end of Black Rock City but it feels like the visual resemblance of rapidly approaching the end of Mayan Calendar 2012. Dance is bigger than the physical body. When … Continue reading
![Black Rock City lights](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2009-Sculpture-Evolution-Night-Upskirt-Shot-Neons-Black-Light-BRC-Gerlach-Nevada-Art-Black-Rock-City-by-Larry-Harvey-Rod-Garrett-Photo1.jpg)
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. – Peter Drucker