“It’s elegant that anywhere would rise and fall in a week, and, some years here, that even happens twice.” So writes Wade Gordon of Burning Man, the temporary city that has grown to a population of over 70,000 since its inception on San Francisco’s Baker Beach in 1986 and its move, in 1991, to the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada.
Gordon is one of three arcCA authors who have written about Black Rock City, its structures, activities, and mores. Enjoy their perspectives here:
Wade Gordon, “Birth of a Participant,” from arcCA 00.2, “Common Ground.”
Jane Martin, “Good Day at Black Rock: Lessons from Burning Man,” also from arcCA 00.2.
Amy Cranch, “The Temple at Burning Man: A Lesson in Impermanence,” from arcCA 10.4, “Faith & Loss.”
Aerial photo courtesy of the Burning Man Archives.
