With Burning Man happening this week in Black Rock Desert, I pushed to finish my design for a shawl inspired by Black Rock City, a city created during the festival every year on the playa.
Every year on the Black Rock Playa a festival of immense
proportions takes place called Burning Man. With around 70,000 participants in
the festival, a temporary city is created for one week called Black Rock City.
It is arranged as a series of concentric streets in an arc around the Burning
Man sculpture. Radial streets called Avenues extend from the sculpture out to
the edges and are given a clock designation, for example, 6:00 or 6:15.
Such precise city planning creates a beautiful symmetry that begs
to be lifted off the playa and wrapped around you. So I created this shawl.
Knit from Malabrigo Arroyo it is soft and warm. I began knitting
it in Black Rock Desert during my residency but didn’t finish it until this
week. I have never done so much math and geometry on a design as I did on this
one!
Pattern is coming soon.