Temples
The Temple of Awareness
https://www.youtube.com/embed/076MSia9hRI
In 2017 the Utah Builders Community brought the Temple of Awareness to Burning Man. I’ll let the video tell the story.
The Temple of Awakening
In 2016 I designed the Temple of Awakening for the Utah Burning Man regional event, Element 11. It was to be a proof of concept for a larger temple to be brought out to Burning Man the following year. We had a successful build and a beautiful burn. This is one of the projects I am proudest of, and it was a privilege to be part of the crew for this.
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The Twelvefold Temple of the Cosmos
2015 was a particular year at Element 11, Utah’s Burning Man regional event. We’d had a huge tragedy the year before, when a man had committed suicide by running into our effigy fire, and the community was still reeling. Bobby Gittins approached me to design a special Temple for the following year, and this is what we built. It was inspired both by the structure of a lotus flower, and by the design of Gothic cathedrals.
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The Release Burn
December 2014.
This wasn’t a Temple proper, but it was the first build we made as a community after the tragedy of Element 11 2014. Trent and I felt very strongly that we all needed a chance to get together and release some of the trauma we’d all suffered, so I designed a small structure—a big fancy bonfire, really—and we organized a winter solstice gathering in Kanab, Utah, to burn it. Participants could write on the structure and put items in it to burn.
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