Burning Man is a sensory overload, jam-packed with innovative artworks, the brightest of them best viewed at night, all of them temporary. This year, at Burning Man 2022, there were more artworks than ever, and it felt impossible to see them all.
But then I looked up from my LED-strung bicycle as I pedaled across the nighttime desert and gasped at a massive art piece that was impossible not to see. There in the black sky was the best of Burning Man art — its cutting-edge, nocturnal, and ephemeral qualities — cranked up by a thousand.