This year's theme is titled Carnival of Mirrors, and will likely involve mirrors and masks, according to the event's website.įor the past 16 years, photographer NK Guy has been attending the event and recently published a collection of his pictures from the arts festival called Art of Burning Man. The arts festival begins every year on the last Monday of August and ends on the first day of September, attracting about 65,000 so-called 'Burners' from around the country to gather on the playa for a week of reveling around the temporary outdoor art gallery.Įach year, several towering 'temples' are built according to a theme, and on the last day, they are burning down in a ritualistic ceremony. Every August, tens of thousands descent on Nevada's Black Rock desert to marvel at a sea of wooden sculptures, only to burn them all down just a week later.īut it's the beauty in the impermanence of these structures that makes Burning Man festival such a spellbinding event.
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