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Evolution Meets Art At Burning Man

Explore the Burning Man festival's 2009 theme, 'Evolution', and its vibrant art installations. Join the conversation about human existence!

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Have readers been to Nevada's Burning Man festival? In 2009, the theme just happens to be Evolution:

"In 2009, the Burning Man will rise above a 'tangled bank' consisting of irregular wooden triangles. No two elements of this organic composition will be quite the same; together they’ll create what’s best described as a chaotic truss. At night the tangled bank will come alive with luminous life forms scratching, crawling and slithering their way through it. This space will also house a pond known as the Gene Pool. Strange Ur-creatures will peep outward from the surface of this primal soup. The central tree supporting Burning Man, beribboned with a double helix, will exist in flux: switching on and switching off, changing colors unexpectedly." The organizers pose three questions:

What are we as human beings?

Where have we come from?

How may we adapt to meet an ever-changing world?

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