Meet my 13th BRC Survival Guide. The 2025 theme was  is envisioning the future that we want to see. For me that’s protecting the natural world, embracing human creativity, and celebrating native cultures.

Or put another way … Im struggling to accept the present and the future scares the pants off me.

I poured my values and my angst into this dream of the past-  a mythical, primordial time before humans started mucking up the earth and each other.

The project starts with a deep search for ancient and indigenous imagery in the public domain collaged into the pages of the SG to honor non-Western arts and cultures. I sweated the blurry line between celebration and appropriation every day.

The wonderful folks at Burning Man saw my human-less, future-less designs and gently nudged me to at least acknowledge the theme for my 80,000 friends in Black Rock City – so hidden among collaged images of indigenous art including ancient weavings from Peru, panted hides from North American tribes, landscapes and mythical creatures from the Middle East and Asia, are tiny cosmonauts  to usher in a hopeful age to illustrate my peaceful, creative, and diverse vision for the future.