WING PORTAL

Recycled steel (2019)

Built as a gift for California, a sculpture of transcendence made from the ruins of the 2018 fires. As a visual metaphor to transcendence, our team is building a monument out of the ruins from the fire and is bringing it to another place of deep personal transformation: Burning Man. After the Burn, the sculpture will be publicly installed in California. The wings span 80 ft. across , and are built out of recycled metal, iridescent panels and thousands of LED lights.

PHOTOS BY CHUNG HUYNH

TEAM: SUKI MEHR, SVEN EBERWEIN, STEPHEN RODAN, JOHN BRISCELLA, SAMANTHA EMLEY, GLENN FISCHER, NINA HOLTSBERRY, JONATHAN CLARK, SAMIA RAHMANI, JAKE LAMPACK, COLBY THOMPSON, ALEXANDRA DUISBERG

THE INSTALLATION

This past fall our community here in California was hit by the devastating fires that destroyed hundreds of homes and affected so many lives. These events have deeply changed us.

As a visual metaphor to transcendence and metamorphosis, our team built a sculpture out of the ruins from the fire and brought it to another place of deep personal transformation: Burning Man. After the Burn, the sculpture will be publicly installed in California.

The wings span 60 feet across, and are built out of recycled metal, iridescent dichroic acrylic panels and thousands of LED lights.