Have readers been to Nevada’s Burning Man festival?  In 2009, the theme just happens to be Evolution:
“In 2009, the Burning Man will rise above a ‘tangled bank’ consisting of irregular wooden triangles.  No two elements of this organic composition will be quite the same; together they’ll create what’s best described as a chaotic truss.  At night the tangled bank will come alive with luminous life forms scratching, crawling and slithering their way through it.  This space will also house a pond known as the Gene Pool.  Strange Ur-creatures will peep outward from the surface of this primal soup.  The central tree supporting Burning Man, beribboned with a double helix, will exist in flux: switching on and switching off, changing colors unexpectedly.”

The organizers pose three questions:

• What are we as human beings?
• Where have we come from?
• How may we adapt to meet an ever-changing world?

Check out past art installations at Burning Man’s site and here’s a little detail from my hometown.

Is anyone headed to the desert in September?