The Flaming Lotus Girls are
a San Francisco-based group of of female and male artists collaborating year round to create exceptional fire art and provide a resource for learning metalworking and other essential shop skills. Our installations incorporate flame effects and enticing design on a gargantuan scale.
We are building Mutopia
for Burning Man 2008.
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Since 2000, the
Flaming Lotus Girls have created both small- and large-scale art. Our
projects have ranged from the original Flaming
Lotus—a sculptural fire cannon that gave the group its name—to
2001’s Fire Garden;
2002’s Fire Fan,
Mini Mega,
and other pieces; 2003’s massive Hand of God
(1/2); and
2004’s multi-piece installation, the Seven Sisters
(1/2/3/4/5/6
).
Our project
for 2006 was our most ambitious yet—The Serpent Mother,
a massive skeletal serpent, 165 feet long coiled around her egg.
We built
The Angel of the Apocalypse in 2005,
a huge abstracted bird with fiery wings rising high into the sky.
Other installations
have included: the Mechanical Cabaret at CELLspace in 2001 (San
Francisco, CA); Burning Man’s Decompression events in 2001 through 2004
(San Francisco, CA); Shackleton’s Feast at the Shipyard in 2002
(Berkeley, CA); and the Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival in 2004 and 2005
(Oakland, CA).
Our press mentions
include the San Francisco Chronicle in 2003 and 2004, Wired magazine in 2004, and a feature article in the San Francisco
Bay Guardian in 2005.
Electra at dawn - Photograph by Michael Byrne