SEPTEMBER 2009 UPDATE

The great news is this: I have no scheduled performances, appearances, or exhibitions between now and September, 2010, when the Cooley Gallery hosts me at Reed College. Whew. This means I can actually get some work done, and y'all don't have to be overwhelmed by my many invitations.

Also great: I enjoyed literally becoming part of my installation at the Manor House/Milepost 5 show for the Burning Tarot collaboration with Steven Fritz.

Also great: bringing Burning Tarot to Burning Man a few weeks ago. We had a tarot hut on the "B" road near 6:30, as part of the rocket builder crew camp; I gave readings with the spanky new Burning Tarot deck, and a very crowded tarot workshop (photo above by Steve Fritz), and Grey Anne invented Dinosaur Readings for the occasion.

Sasha Brown, Allison Dubinsky, and Anne also helped me install and strike two installations on the center camp fence "gallery": a Burning Tarot piece, and a participatory Easter Island Project installation (photo left is again Steve, I think). Thank you, lovely people!

Working on others' projects was perhaps the most satisfying part of Burning Man for me this year. The Raygun Gothic Rocket crew welcomed me in as a Rocketeer and dug up a bit of work for me to do, including working perimeter (crowd control for about 15-20 thousand people; photo by Mike Woolson) for this insane rocketship launch pyro experience. In the video, watch through to the failing, flaming astronaut jumping ship, and the stunning blasts toward the very end of the launch.

I was also honored to feed some home-cooked food to 20 or so charming and lovely Flamethrower Shooting Gallery workers (including Matisse Enzer and Foxy Roxie) in a dusty whiteout, coordinated by awesome Portlander Paul Brady.