Let’s open up this post with a sneak peek of the effigy for Dragon Burn 2025…
As per tradition in all the regionals, the Effigy is the center of Dragon Burn. It is a celebration of community.
It is a communal effort of expression and joy and togetherness. We help build it, gather around it, watch performances involving it, burn it, and dance to its warmth.
It reminds us why we gather together, and inspire us to stay together and bring the ten principles with us all year around. It is our iconic reminder to keep the creative “fires” burning within long after the event has come to a close.
Time and distance become constant scales.
Only change itself remains unchanged.
Only constant change can always exist.
At the apex, there is a snake image to echo the Year of the Snake. Climbing up to the top allows one to enter the interior space and fully view this image.
The tower, symbolizing time, has different routes that can be climbed as participants move forward through history. Upon reaching the top, participants pass through a wormhole and return to the past.
Once you’ve returned to the past, you can choose to climb again and take a different route through time and space.
EFFIGY RECRUITMENT!
NIRVANA camp is the main camp in charge of the effigy construction. If you have time and energy, strong and also a big fan of handcraft work, please contact Magic Ma, lets build this masterpiece together! (No Wechat? contact elaine.kang@burningman.org)
2025 DB Effigy Designer
Dragon Burn is what its people make of it.
Thank you for your engagement!
