Dia De Los Quemadures: An Artistic Journey

Dia De Los Quemadures (Day Of The Burners) – a 36 inch by 48 inch art poster. We made it as part of the Carnival Of Space & Time installation or our Eridu Society camp at Burning Man in 2015. This was years before we became Atomic Octopus. The event’s theme that year was Carnival Of Mirrors. We wanted to play on that, but ultimately decided to use it for our own art theme. Eridu Society often worked elements of steampunk and time travel into its installations. The premise was that members of the camp had traveled to future Burning Man events and then brought back the art theme posters to delight and inspire.

With Dia De Los Quemadures (Day Of The Burners), Trilo wanted to explore the idea of mashing up Burning Man and the Day Of The Dead festival. He also wanted to play with the idea of putting a very high tech spin on papercutting. While Trilo waited on renders for cut paper materials, he killed time by doing research. It turns out Day Of The Dead used to take place at the end of the summer. It was only after the arrival of the Spanish that the event was moved to the beginning of November. Trilo was the art director on the future Burning Man future art theme poster series. Pani and Trilo collaborated on Dia De Los Quemadures.

Exhibition

Trilo and Pani felt honored to exhibit their art theme posters at Burning Man headquarters in San Francisco during the weeks leading up to Burning Man 2015. The exhibition gave friends and staff members a chance to experience the artwork before it made its playa debut. At the same time, it playfully reflected Eridu Society’s theme of time travel by presenting the pieces weeks before the event itself.

After Burning Man 2015, the story continued. Several works from the series joined the permanent collection at Burning Man headquarters. As a result, the exhibition became both a memorable milestone and a lasting contribution to the Burning Man community. Click on the images below to see in higher resolution.