Featured Artist
“Ecstasy”
By: Karen Cusolito and Dan Das Mann -
www.headlesspoint.com
First displayed at the Burning Man festival in Nevada in 2007, Ecstasy is one of
the eight monumental metal figures of the artists’ masterpiece, Crude Awakening.
In Crude Awakening, these eight figures surrounded a 99-foot tall wooden oil
derrick in gestures of prostration, worship and exaltation. The figures
represented the ‘faithful’; the religious peoples of the world in their various
postures of worship, all joining together in homage of the ominous symbol of the
oil derrick. The installation culminated in a massive firework and fire display,
and in the burning of the oil derrick. It was the biggest and most memorable
burn to date at the Burning Man event.
Alone, Ecstasy embarks on a hopeful journey. Instead of throwing her head back
in reverie to the oil derrick, she gazes wistfully into the open sky as she
steps forward into the future. Her name expresses a sudden change of attitude
and belief in hope; an moment of being overcome by passionate optimism in a
future beyond our culture’s dependency on fossil fuel.
Installed until June 18th, 2010
Sponsored by: The Hayes Valley Art Coalition
www.hayesvalleyartcoalition.org
Principal Financial Sponsor: The Black Rock Arts Foundation
www.blackrockarts.org
Hayes Valley Merchant Donors: Absinthe, Arelquin, Suppenkuche, LaBoulange,
Cafe Altano, Gimme Shoes, Nabilas, Through The Hayes Optometry, Headlights Hair
Salon, Propeller, Zonal, AgeSong and Pacific Institute.
Private Donors: Lorna Hall, Delaine Hackney, Brian Casey, Gaucho Gypsy Jazz
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