Origami boats approach an island surrounded by nine crane forms, mirrors and flame elements. This installation combines angular steel forms with organic shapes, fire, light and a nautical soundscape to create a landscape visitors can enter.
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Sea of Dreams combines steel origami boats, nine crane-like Elders, mirrors, light, sound and fire in a landscape the collective describes as a hundred-foot-diameter circle. Its exhibition history separately records one Elder at Western Winter Blast in 2023. That component presentation should be distinguished from the complete environment when discussing scope, interpretation and the participant journey.
Is the proposal for the full environment or selected components, and which effects accompany them?
Big Art Partners planning prompt
July 11, 2022 announcement, preceding installation.
The approach carries part of the story
Burning Man’s July 2022 preview describes Sea of Dreams as a narrative visible from a distance: origami boats approach a central ring of fiery cranes. Because this is a pre-event account, it documents the intended experience. It nevertheless identifies a useful planning question about how visitors first see the boats, understand their direction and reach the central gathering space.
