Starlight

Black Rock City, NV, United States

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Starlight

Black Rock City, NV, United States

Firm

Type

Cultural › Cultural Center Sculpture

YEAR

2012

SIZE

25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft

BUDGET

$0 - 10K

Starlight is
a modest sculptural installation that was installed at Burning Man 2012 and four
other festivals. Seven twelve foot
diameter plywood stars were placed in the Black Rock desert mapping out the
constellation Orion, creating a sense of place and a "heaven on
earth" effect. Starlight was a do
it yourself project designed by a few but constructed and funded by many. The stars are designed to look good day and
night and to appeal from great distances in order to draw in the curious. Repetition, scale and tension are used to
combat the overwhelming scale of the Black Rock desert while getting the most from a crowdsourced budget of
roughly $5,000. The stars were constructed of plywood and fir blocking. Each star was given its own unique lighting
pattern. Panels and patterns on the stars were cut by
CNC.

Starlight by
Erich Remash, Jeremy Berglund, Don Peterson + Chad InglePhotographers: Gleb Tarro, Holger Struppek, Jesse Rather and Erich Remash