Walking up I thought, 'Is that it?'
The Flaming Lotus Girls are known, some would say legendary, for their huge fire arts displays. Their piece for Burning Man in 2006 was entitled Mother Serpent. It was a huge snake coiling around an eight foot tall egg. The coil was about fifty yards in circumference with the head ending up swaying about fifteen feet off the ground. It was a beautiful, fantastic, flame spouting wonder.
When I walked up to there current project, Muytopia, what struck me the most was how small it was.
(Eight feet tall, four feet wide, with hydraulic wings and head. It was impressive, but even with the flames shooting out of it I was far from impressed.
Walking around to the other side I struck up a conversation with one of the Flaming Lotus Girls, an amazingly hot Eastern European named Sasha. I may be wrong on the name, after all it is really difficult to concentrate when you have something spouting flames next to you.
"I am a little surprised," I responded to the atypical artist question of "What do you think?"
"I thought it would be bigger."
"Oh that's just one piece."
"One?"
"There are going to be thirteen of them. With all different sizes. This one will be the middle sized one I think."
Looking at it from that perspective all I could think was 'Holy shit, this thing going to be immense.
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