thanks to two of the lotus girls’ very own, sooz cammack and george schaller, we’ve got an amazing time laspe of soma from the desert this year from construction to deconstruction and everything in between.
watch it while listening to your favorite soundtrack. just about anything will do…my personal soundtrack was on www.kcrw.com with “Fight for You” by Morgan Page on deck. seemed to work pretty well.
enjoy the view.
meows!
© 2009 George Schaller
Thanks to everyone who came out to Soma this year to enjoy its light and fire and support the Flaming Lotus Girls. We do what we do because of all of you! This year, we had an extra-special addition to our fire repertoire: the sparkle poof. The sparkle poofs are propane-fueled, titanium-
© 2009 Sue Cammack
injected poofers that so many of you got to fire off by pushing those wonderful bronze buttons on the legs of the lower cell body of Soma.
Each sparkle poof fixture was hand-crafted out of stainless steel and copper, carefully wrought into flaring petals shooting out from the upper cell body. Like all the aspects of our work, much time, energy, expense and love went into their creation.
Sadly, one of these sparkle poof fixtures was taken from the playa.
On Monday evening, the day the event closed, these fixtures were placed next to our container. They were to be loaded up with all the other bits and bobs of Soma on Tuesday morning for transport back to San Francisco. Much to our dismay, one of these beautiful fixtures was missing when we returned to our site for packing. It seems someone ‘borrowed’ a sparkle poof for themselves.
© 2009 Sue Cammack
We are putting a call out to try to recover this essential piece of Soma. She’s just not complete without it. In order to run the sparkle poofs, we’ll have to make another fixture – an endeavor which requires even more time, energy, expense and love, all of which we’re currently expending on other upcoming projects and events.
The art people create for the playa isn’t meant to be a souvenir. It is meant to have a life beyond the desert where people around the globe can explore and appreciate the experience of participatory art in their own backyards, having their minds blown by the power of creativity just like we get to at Burning Man. Soma is no different.
© 2009 Michi Catanese
If you have any knowledge of where our little sparkle poof may have landed, please email info@flaminglotus.com and put SPARKLE POOF in the subject line. We’re not interested in blame or shame or anything of the sort. We can even arrange to have her delivered to a neutral location. Or, she can be mailed to the following address, no questions asked:
Flaming Lotus Girls
548 Precita Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94110
We’d just like her back. As soon as we can get her.
welcome to a (hopefully) new weekly installment of lotus girl updates from our trials, tribulations and ridiculous adventures at the Box Shop! we
trust you will be thrilled and intrigued at every turn as we dazzle you with tales of seam welding and sculpture repair and flame effect madness!
lots of lotus girls are hard at work preparing the Angel of the Apocalypse for its debut in Toronto in late January 2010 at the WinterCity 2009 festival. for the past few weeks, on any given night, you can find the lotus girls scurrying about, learning how to seam weld stainless sheet, putting together plans for the body and head of the sculpture, and grinding our hearts out to make the feathers shiny and pretty for their big show.
today was a day like any other day. grinder in hand, respirator just starting to itch, hot sun beating down on my shoulders. i took a break to
find yet another extension cord and walked into the shop. just when i thought the day might proceed without event, i discover quite the opposite was true inside.
two of our very own fabulous photographers were shooting lots of lotus girls for our upcoming 2010 FLG calendar (shameless plug for merchandise here…check out the 2009 calendar here). with the photographers at the ready, one of our faves, brent, was getting his due in the spotlight. i think the shot speaks for itself. it was a tremendously fun day. in the midst of grinding and seam welding, the lotus
girls certainly always know how to have a good time. we hope to have the calendar ready before the holidays, just in time for all that gift giving!
stayed tuned for more adventures from the box shop!
until then, meows!
xoxo
catie
Sorry peeps but the class for Saturday the 9th is at capacity and we have to cap our “admissions.” Not to worry though, wemihgt be having another class in the very near future. We will keep you posted!!!
Love,
the FLG xoxoxo
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