Luminata
Fall means the darkening of days and the coming of rain. For Haus Anima and Fremont Arts Council it means celebrate the September equinox with lanterns and the lighting of Greenlake!
Five years ago Z showed LED Grass at Luminata as their first granted art piece! More recently Ribbit, Kalesta and Z created Illuminated Betta Fish (later WishFish) and showed Mourning Owl at Luminata.
This year we choreographed a Fire Performance for the end of the lantern procession. We also made a few lanterns while helping out at Powerhouse Workshops.
We took inspiration and a good deal of advice from Maque and Norma of FAC and Cirque De Flambe about construction of flaming puppets.
We constructed a giant puppet sun from kevlar to accompany our fire performance.
A few of our Burning Man friends performed with us at the end of the lantern procession.
The Fire 🔥🎇 was magical, clean, and crisp: a thing that’s very difficult to capture on camera.
Thank you to Maque and Norma for design help, to our fire friends for performing with us, and to our safeties for keeping us safe.
Thank you to everyone who made lanterns for FAC, to all the volunteers who helped out at the event, to everyone who celebrated the equinox with us, and to the rain for staying away (🚫🌧️) and for the wonderful Sun and Moon (🌞🌝).
