Area15 and Fireman Day
Happy Fireman Day on the Area15. In a mysterious bunker in the Las Vegas desert, but don’t expect to know any government secrets in Area15. This is a new art and entertainment activity, including the art island, a huge outdoor gallery with work style Burning Man Art Festival (held annually in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada since 1986).
“I love Las Vegas – lights and glitz,” Michael Beneville said when visiting the venue at Zoom. “We know we can’t even try to make something that can defeat the casino,” he said.
After five years, Area15 is Michael’s painstaking effort. He is a 10-year veteran of the Fire Man Day. He wants to bring his innovative community spirit to another place.
“Fireman Day is very special,” Michael said. “68000 of the most creative people on the earth gathered to create something extraordinary. I am very modest to know that we will never try to rebuild the Fireman Day.”
The statue on Area 15 for happy fireman day
But every year after the Fireman Festival, artists will face the problem of how to deal with the commemorative sculptures they built for the activities in the Black Rock Desert.
Sunrise is one of the magic moments of the Fireman Day, because all the floats are gathered in a specific place. Every morning at sunrise, different famous DJs will be played, and the atmosphere is high.
Here Michael Benisty’s “I will find you in my life” is always standing there beautifully.
This beautiful stainless steel sculpture is 15 meters high and made of mirror polished stainless steel. From a distance, it looks like a mirage in the desert. It attracts many burners, and it is difficult for me to shoot it under good conditions. It depicts men and women standing in symbolic and universal care positions, and shows love and solidarity.
One of the most complex and spectacular works: the metal warrior “Desert Guard” stands guard in Praya. Lu Ming’s creation recreates the armor of Genghis Khan, a special kind of armor that allows him to resist the invasion of the enemy. Its damping and damping deflection system is very original but effective.
This artwork is 15 meters long and weighs 10 tons. She blended into the soul of Mongolian soldiers. The artist would like to remind you that we should never use artificial intelligence for war, otherwise human beings will create weapons to kill us.
Polar bears are unlikely to come to Praya in this dusty desert, contrary to its cold and cold habitat. He is made of a white car hood. From his height of 20 meters, he showed the power of climate change and invited us to go to his distant land with him.
The polar bear is very suitable as an ambassador to make the Arctic a human conscience. Animals are disappearing to make way for our cars. Turning the demolished car into a huge animal visually reverses this process and affects the audience’s consciousness.
The burning of the statues and memory temple
The night falls on the last day of the Burning Man Festival, which will ignite the huge sculpture in the central square. At the same time, the exquisite artistic installations on the scene and the old objects representing the memory of the participants will be thrown into the fire and burned.
People’s grief, sadness and yearning were also destroyed with the fire. When the temple burned a huge wave of fire, it was the greatest release of emotion. The scene where everyone will cry is also like the birth of new hope!
In addition to the cremation of human figures, the burning of the memory temple has also become a major attraction of the Burning Man Festival. This temple is a place for meditation and prayer. There is no electronic music, no text, only religious silence, mixed with many sobs, and a strong emotion envelops the temple. Everyone collects themselves, leaves photos or articles belonging to the deceased relatives. And writes down the information of liberation It’s hard not to be touched by this place. The emotion there is obvious. Every combustor has established great unity. With a gesture, a word of comfort, and a huge “hug”, he tries to soothe his friend’s pain for a day.
On the last night of the festival, the temple burned down, which was still a very intense moment. No one spoke, everything disappeared, accompanied by thousands of thoughts left by the burner. Lets happy fireman day together.
