The Reckoning

A deer skull in an uncanny cantilever to the playa sweeps its antlers into a ring to wrap around each who stands upon a platform to look into its eyes, enrapturing them in seismic sound. Armatured with rusting steel and clad in clear-resin soaked leather, the skull almost seems to float as its antlers flow to the earth to support its weight, tipped in flame.

Placed to allow the sun to set directly through its antlers on Burn night, it acknowledges celestial rhythms and humanity’s atavistic relationship to the passage of time. At night, sinewy and translucent, The Reckoning comes alive, shimmering with addressable LEDs, both as the shine of life within death and the spirit world’s folkloric awakening in darkness.