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L.A. Sugai

L.A. Sugai is the credited artist behind a group of sculptural and environmental entries in Burning Man’s official archive. The 2016 cards identify the artist as L.A. Sugai, also styled gallactic butterfly, and describe #Monkey Luck as a fire-monkey sculpture and Heyoka as a sixty-foot-wide circle with four standing perimeter figures. The 2018 entries list A Rose for #Tyler, a large yellow rose under a gazebo, and Tusky the MISTIcal Elephant!, an ornamented elephant with a hand-pumped misting trunk. Matching public project contacts support the connection between these entries despite differing hometown labels. This is an archive-based profile: the artist’s full given name, current studio and completed condition of each registered work are unconfirmed. The linked reference belongs to Burning Man, not the artist.

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