Temple of The 5 Elements - Burning Man 2022
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Temple of the 5 Elements – an art installation for Burning Man 2022 that will allow you to transform into the element of love.
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The Temple of the Elements is a meditation on love and the fulfilled hope of re/connection. After two years mostly apart, I wanted to create an idea that would bring friends, old and new, together to embrace, maybe kiss, and experience the joy of human connection that has been absent for too long and for too many. My intent is for this installation to inspire people to interact with it and with each other, which will be achieved since it will take two people standing on the disk to trigger the effect. My hope is it reawakens a sense of love for each other. That love is elemental. That love is the light we need to guide us through the darkness we experience in our lives. And have fun in the process.
Experience: On the playa, two or more participants will ascend to the top of a short altar to stand on an inset, clear plexiglass disk, triggering hidden pressure sensors. When activated, beams of light will shoot out from four surrounding pillars in colors representing Earth, Air, Water and Fire onto the participants on the altar. A powerful beam of white light will illuminate the participants from below as they kiss or embrace, illuminating the surrounding area as they become the element of love until the lighting effect times out and fades to make space for other participants.
To bring the Temple of the 5 Elements to the playa we need your support. Any donation you make will be received with love, the thanks of the TO5E team and the thousands of people who will experience this project on the playa.
After the burn we plan to bring the Temple of the 5 Elements to festivals and events throughout the US and Canada to bring love and the fulfilled hope of re/connection to people who won't be able to be on the playa in 2022.
For more information about the temple or to make an in-kind donation of materials we need, please check out our website http://www.templeofthe5elements.org
Our Website
The Temple of the Elements is a meditation on love and the fulfilled hope of re/connection. After two years mostly apart, I wanted to create an idea that would bring friends, old and new, together to embrace, maybe kiss, and experience the joy of human connection that has been absent for too long and for too many. My intent is for this installation to inspire people to interact with it and with each other, which will be achieved since it will take two people standing on the disk to trigger the effect. My hope is it reawakens a sense of love for each other. That love is elemental. That love is the light we need to guide us through the darkness we experience in our lives. And have fun in the process.
Experience: On the playa, two or more participants will ascend to the top of a short altar to stand on an inset, clear plexiglass disk, triggering hidden pressure sensors. When activated, beams of light will shoot out from four surrounding pillars in colors representing Earth, Air, Water and Fire onto the participants on the altar. A powerful beam of white light will illuminate the participants from below as they kiss or embrace, illuminating the surrounding area as they become the element of love until the lighting effect times out and fades to make space for other participants.
To bring the Temple of the 5 Elements to the playa we need your support. Any donation you make will be received with love, the thanks of the TO5E team and the thousands of people who will experience this project on the playa.
After the burn we plan to bring the Temple of the 5 Elements to festivals and events throughout the US and Canada to bring love and the fulfilled hope of re/connection to people who won't be able to be on the playa in 2022.
For more information about the temple or to make an in-kind donation of materials we need, please check out our website http://www.templeofthe5elements.org
Organizer
Matt Scott
Organizer
Valencia, CA
