Burning Man

Collossus

Collossus -- this sculpture was the keyhole art piece. Three boulders hanging from three arms. Each of the boulders has a rope dangling from it, allowing people to come by and tug mightily on the ropes to get the whole sculpture to turn. The inherent psychology here is that you need to trust the art in order to play with it. Not a single person I saw (including myself) gave this a single thought -- everyone just started playing with the sculpture. I just yanked on the rope as hard as I could. :-)

Afterall, the sculpture was massively over-engineered.

Posted by Mayhem at September 10, 2005 02:50 PM | TrackBack