![Finale](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Fire-Dancers-Parade-81.jpg)
BURNING MAN 2012 “The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.” Charles Dickens Attended by more … Continue reading
![Sunken Boat in Desert](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Pier-2-by-The-Pier-Group-Reno-NV-Dust-Storm.jpg)
Surreal view of sinking ship in desert dust storm. Art installation by The Pier Group from Reno, NV. A severed Spanish galleon rises out of the dust. The seas have long receded, yet the ship lives on to bear testimony … Continue reading
![Fantastic sky picture](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Core-Sunrise1.jpg)
Silhouettes of CORE installations with dramatic sunrise in the background. The effigies loom in the dusk horizon. Come from all the corners of the world, this imposing figures are the living proof that Burning Man can and will continue to … Continue reading
![Money hanging from the tree](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Transformoney-Tree-by-Dadara-2.jpg)
Painted sky over an Art sculpture by Dadara Amsterdam. Banknotes growing from trees. Is the way we have let that illusory giant “MONEY” control the world connected to our natural way of being as humans? What is the true value … Continue reading
![Desert Garden](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Sunflower-Garden.jpg)
The morning sun rises over the desert’s sunflower garden. Petals like fire, follow the wind and not the sun. Fire as life and flower growth as fertility. Sunflowers rising out of the desert’s surface reaffirm the primal force of Life … Continue reading
![Swinging women on the tree](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Tree-of-Transmutation-women-torsos.jpg)
Sun illuminating the hanging women torsos. Art installation by Kevin Christman, Talent OR. Transmutation from the cocoon of the womb into the Chrysalis of a fulfilling existence. Larger than life women in a fetal position hang from the tree of … Continue reading
![The most sensitive weathercock made of connected helium balloons stretched over one mile](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Balloon-Chain-by-Robert-Bose.jpg)
Over one mile long chain of helium filled balloon skyline near 2 o’clock Clean slate A fresh new dawn A canvas for new and bigger dreams unfathomable dreams that we shall grasp And it all started with sky-pie a skyline … Continue reading
![Love Nest](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Hanging-in-the-bag-21-143x198.jpg)
Torsos replaced by real burners during the day. THE MESS-ING I’m a celestial mess watch me undress and you shall see I am more naked than the rest VERONICA PAMOUKAGHLIAN
![Fence agains the colorful sky](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Fence-and-the-Pier-21.jpg)
Beautiful fence near by Pier 2. PUNTA CARRETAS IN THE SPRING The sudden smell of lemon blossoms that wafted from the lemon tree outside the mall that had once been a prison I imagined what bliss it must have been … Continue reading
![Stormy clouds over the banks](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Burn-Wall-Street-Clouds-in-storm.jpg)
Dark Skies over Wall Street. Installation by Otto Von Danger Oakland CA. Burn me up before rot takes it all before the scavengers and their black hole Let’s do it because we can because we want Let’s do it before … Continue reading