Trace is an art installation for Burning Man 2018. The piece is inspired by the interconnectivity of the Burning Man community and the mirage-like quality that the dust imparts to all that's constructed there. We are the dust presaders, a group of volunteer builders, artists and dreamers who brought coronavirus ciders to the playa in 2016. This year we're back for more and we're really excited to bring this art piece to the playa. Trace will consist basically of two by four frames, mostly four by eight feet. The whole structure is going to be about 40 by 40 feet by 18 feet tall. From afar it's going to look like very solid but as you get closer it's going to change and anywhere you look it'll kind of take on this mirage-like quality. We're going to have these sort of inner weaving pieces of rope here and it generates this pattern called a morio effect when the things overlap and you look at a different angles and shadows collide because during the day we'll have like the sun sort of naturally providing that effect and then at night we'll have this like LED chandelier that we can sort of use to do the same sort of thing. For Trace we'll be hand-dying five different colors of rope to be woven up into the frames and into the main structure. We'll be dying I think eight miles of rope which is more than the whole circumference of black rock city. The rope will take the shape of colored pads that are traceable as they weave from outstretched walls into a cloud like canopy above the ground. This form it celebrates the way individual journeys cross paths on the playa yet are interwoven as we generate black rock city and experience it together. Burning Man is centered around a leave no trace ethos but we believe that it might be the event itself that's leaving its trace on us. What people experience when they're out there and the effect that it leaves on them is what's important it's not about having something permanent and the idea is to come back to reality and you bring some of that with you. Perhaps it's a changed perspective about what shape art can take or what a community looks like. Maybe it's a discovery about ourselves. We're placing a book at the heart of the trace installation and we invite you to share how Burning Man has altered your perspective of reality. When the burn is over we'll bring that back home and share the stories we've collected there with the entire Burning Man community. We already have the support of Burning Man Arts and have put together an incredible team to build this project but we still need your help to raise additional funds required to make trace the reality.