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It all started in 1986 when Larry Harvey and his friend, Jerry James, threw together a wooden figure and dragged it down to Baker Beach for the summer solstice where it burned, surrounded by a group of onlookers. Three decades later, this one act has become a huge initiative. If this tale intrigues you, you’ll love the image we’re sharing with you this month. It’s of the 2023 Burning Man, a project designed to inspire people to explore and create art out in the desert.
For this month’s Imagery Work Break, we have a high off-nadir (so it is more of a side view than straight down) 55-cm WorldView-3 image from August 28, 2023 collected over Black Rock City, Nevada, scene of the jampacked 2023 Burning Man Festival. One can see throngs of people, tents and vehicles sitting on the desert along with the spot where the wooden ‘man’ would be burned.
Called ‘Burners’, these people with values reflected in the project’s Ten Principles spend the year working to build Black Rock City, home of the largest annual Burning Man gathering, and nurture the distinctive culture emerging from that experience. Every year, Burning Man is held at the end of summer in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. The event draws as many as 70,000 people each year and as the festival wraps up, the final ceremony calls for the burning of a large wooden humanoid statue, known as the Man, on the last night. The 2024 festival will be held from August 25th to September 2nd. In the meantime, check out more images of past Burning Man’s that we have covered in 2017, 2018 and then 2022.
Have a great rest of your workday! 😊
(Image Courtesy: Maxar. Processed by Apollo Mapping for improved color accuracy and clarity.)
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