05/20/2025
To the UnScruz community (and all Burning Man regional and/or Big Burn attendees:
I recently took Mani Padmi (a giant Tibetan Prayer Wheel) to unSCruz. The piece was beautifully placed, looked and sounded splendid and seemed to be drawing a lovely group of participants.
Early Saturday morning soneone tried to climb this most delicate piece - not once, but repeatedly. Mani Padme was damaged to a point that it was unsafe to operate.
I was devastated. This is a very special piece to me and it will take much time, effort and money to rebuild.
I want to make it clear what it means to me, and many other artists when this happens. It is gut wrenching!
unSCruz has an art vandalism/misuse/climbing policy - that if you are caught doing this there will be no warnings or second changes. You’ll be kicked out of the event immediately and banned from future events.
I hope the person(s) who did this will either make restitution or suffer the consequences.