In our previous post, we had just started our well-deserved afternoon off of exploration, after four grueling days of building. When we last left our intrepid heroes, they had just reached the edge of the world:

Our first stop was a skeletal sculpture. It combined parts of animal skeletons with the skeletons of metal objects into an impressive whole that somehow expressed the dryness and bleakness of the desert with its subtle beauty:

How tall was this thing anyway?:

Look at the bones!:

We then happened on another installation[1]:

And went to investigate:

This installation seemed to be entitled ‘Happenstance’, or perhaps something else entirely. It was a delightful mixture of little ambiguous mini-installations and trompe l’oeil pieces like this one:

Our intrepid heroine encountered a flying fish there:

And decided to experience the wind in the only way that made sense:

The colour of the installation was this nice light blue, including these boxes or something that we couldn’t figure out:

(I couldn’t find this installation on the list of Burning Man 2015 projects. Any ideas?)

Next time, we’ll venture even further into deep playa! Hopefully we’ll survive!

[1]I wanted to comment on the indescribable feel of being on Playa, the dryness and starkness and smell of the alkali desert, the feeling of finding little oases such as these as you travel around, but I think it deserves its own separate post.