Temple of the 5 Elements 2.0.23- Burning Man 2023

Temple of the 5 Elements – an art installation for Burning Man 2023 that will allow you to transform into the element of love. Help us upgrade the lighting, structure, interactivity and bring the Temple of the 5 Elements back to the playa!!

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The Temple of the Elements is a meditation on love and the fulfilled hope of re/connection. After years mostly apart, I wanted to create an idea that would bring friends, old and new, together to embrace, maybe kiss, and experience the joy of human connection that has been absent for too long and for too many. My intent is for this installation to inspire people to interact with it and with each other, which will be achieved since it will take two people standing on the disk to trigger the effect. My hope is it reawakens a sense of love for each other. That love is elemental. That love is the light we need to guide us through the darkness we experience in our lives. And have fun in the process.

Experience: On the playa, two or more participants will ascend to the top of a short altar to stand on an inset, clear plexiglass disk, triggering hidden pressure sensors. When activated, beams of light will shoot out from four surrounding pillars in colors representing Earth, Air, Water and Fire onto the participants on the altar. A powerful beam of white light will illuminate the participants from below as they kiss or embrace, illuminating the surrounding area as they become the element of love until the lighting effect times out and fades to make space for other participants.

To bring the Temple of the 5 Elements to the playa we need your support.

2022 was a challenging year for To5E and even the most vetran burners on our team learned new lessons on how the playa can undo even the best, tested plans. So we are upgrading nearly every system for 2023 for maximup uptime. New lighting, new stones, new power and data cabling, a whole new show control ssytem, new generator and box, much more are all in progress with the goal to run every night from dusk until dawn.

Any donation you make will be received with love, the thanks of the TO5E team and the thousands of people who will experience this project on the playa.

After the burn we plan to bring the Temple of the 5 Elements to festivals and events throughout the US and Canada to bring love and the fulfilled hope of re/connection to people who won't be able to be on the playa in 2023.

For more information about the temple or to make an in-kind donation of materials we need, please check out our website http://www.templeofthe5elements.org