Bliss Dance, by Lloyd Taylor

With the recent cold snap brutalizing the East Coast of the US, it's challenging to recollect our sweaty dusty adventures in the desert a few months back. Surely that must have happened in another lifetime?!? So, this Photo Friday, I decided to showcase a few pics from my favorite art installation of this year's Burn.

According to the Burning Man site:
Bliss Dance is a unique steel sculpture utilizing cutting edge design; an unabashedly breathtaking modern sculpture in structure and balance. She celebrates humanity and shows the feminine beauty, power and strength that emerges when women are safe and free to be themselves. Standing 40 feet tall, she is dancing naked with her eyes closed; a sign that the spirit of the community is healthy and the balance between male and female is present.

Which is impressive indeed. But when you randomly stumble upon a giant naked dancing woman who seems to rise out of nowhere and softly shimmers from one color to another, words escape.

All you can really do is stand in awe. And, of course, try to snap some pics. Which is tricky without a tripod.

Someone in the crowd referred to her as "David's Wife," as in: something so classically beautiful that Michelangelo himself might approve.

She was also pretty cool to see during the day.

Supposedly the artist was inspired by the Joseph Campbell phase "follow your bliss." How are you following YOUR bliss this holiday season?

Check out more fabulous travel photos at Delicious Baby's Photo Friday.

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