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Leonardo Journal
The coming together of art and technology is an important aspect of the work of the FLG. Because flame effects are integral to the artistic vision of the works that the FLG creates, technical knowledge is imperative in the creation process.

While each piece's sculptural elements allow them to be viewed/experienced on a purely visual level, the flame effects, and often an interactive element, complete the full vision and lend visceral depth and sensual dimension to the arch. In other words, fire is HOT!

"The Seven Sisters of the Flaming Lotus Girls", Leonardo Journal, August 2007

San Francisco Bay Guardian News
I got my first peek into the Flaming Lotus Girls world last year. The place was a busy hive burners working on all kinds of crazy projects, but the flaming Lotus girls dominate the shop.

They were intense about what they did, and what they did reshape steel. And once they used hammers, or oxyacetylene torches or their bodies to create steel into their vision of the Seven Sisters, they played with fire. They created elaborate fuel systems from scratch, glowing more gleeful at the fireballs got bigger and scarier.
"Angels of the Apocalypse", San Francisco Bay Guardian News, August 2005


Servo Magazine
It is the goal of the Flaming Lotus Girls to empower women by teaching them skills and metal work and industrial fire arts. They will take their new skills and abilities and continued to create their own art as well is help out with the group's projects. The motto of the Flaming Lotus Girls hangs on the wall in the BoxShop. It simply says, WE CAN DO IT!
"The Flaming Lotus Girls and the Serpent Mother", Servo Magazine, February 2007

IEEE Spectrum Magazine
Neither words nor pictures do full justice to the Serpent Mother, a fire-breathing steel-and-electronics dragon that debuted this past August at Burning Man, an annual orgy of art, technology, and water deprivation held in the Nevada desert. Serpent Mother took six months to create. Her 55-meter-long body supports a hydraulically activated moving head. Forced air shoots burning propane from her fangs and from 31 points along her spine—a total of 1700 liters is used each evening. The jets can be shot individually, or they can be controlled by a computer.
"The Big Picture: Serpent Mother", IEEE Spectrum Magazine, November 2006
Butane-Propane News
Propane is a natural fit for fire artists such as the Flaming Lotus Girls. The group loves the fuel's portability and flexibility in art pieces such as this year's angel of the Apocalypse, which consisted of 16 stainless steel wings that emitted fire, a body made out of wood, and a head crafted from steel and glass that held wood for the final performance.
"Fueling artistic expression puts propane in the spotlight", Butane-Propane News, December 2005
Butane-Propane News
It might be easy to assume that they [FLG] just burn things, but that isn't even 1% of what most of them sees their medium. Their work is generally a combination of industrial arts and sculpture and other mediums that that also includes fire. The artists are schooled in a number of industrial arts -- plumbing, welding, electrical and metallurgy, to name a few.
"Fire As Art.", Butane-Propane News, March 2005

Publications:
Flaming Lotus Girls and the Serpent Mother, Steve Nelson, Servo Magazine February 2007
http://www.servomagazine.com/preview.php?issue=45

The Seven Sisters of the Flaming Lotus Girls, Tamara Li, Leonardo Journal August 2007
http://leonardo.info/gallery/burningman_fire/li.html

Serpent Mother: The Big Picture, IEEE Magazine, November 2006
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4698

Angels of the Apocalypse, Steve T. Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2005
http://www.sfbg.com/39/46/cover_burning_man.html

Fire As Art, Anne Rey, Butane-Propane News, March 2005
http://www.bpnews.com/htmlfile/magzine/mag2005/mar05/030305.htm

Fueling Artistic Expression Puts Propane in the Spotlight, Anne Rey, Butane-Propane News, December 2005
http://www.bpnews.com/htmlfile/magzine/mag2005/dec05/1205indx.htm

Going for the Burn, Bill Picture, San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 2006
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/20/PKGP6KEOAM1....

Flame Dragons, Steam Art and Robot Music at Robodock, Jonathan Shekter, Wired News, October 2007
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2007/10/gallery_robodock?sli...

Fire fest in Frisco--When it's OK to play with fire, Daniel Terdiman, ZDNet, May 2006
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-148138.html

Through the fire Burning Man collaborators address their hopes and fears through works of art, Sasha Vasilyuk, Oakland Tribune, August 2007
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OKTB&p_theme=oktb...

Artists tame, manipulate flames, William Brand, Oakland Tribune, July 2006
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OKTB&p_theme=oktb...

Festival of Fire Celebrates Truly Dangerous Art, Lane Hartwell, Wired News July 2007
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2007/07/gallery_fire_art

Robots uit afval dansen, draaien en zwemmen in het Robodock, Hester Otter, Trouw , Sep 2007
http://www.trouw.nl/incoming/article1237659.ece

Amsterdam vlamt met Serpent Mother, Coromandel Brombacher, Spits, September 2007
http://spitsnet.nl/nieuws.php/47/5547/online/Amsterdam_vlamt_met_Serpent...

Bright Light, Fake City, JUDI BRAWER, Boise Weekly, August 2008
http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A316827

Post Industrial Idyll, 2007 Robodock Festival in Amsterdam, Dale Dougherty, Make Magazine, Vol 13, 2008
http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol13/?pg=51&search=flaming%20lotus&per...

Broadcast TV:
This is Burning Man, Current TV 2006
This is Burning Man, Current TV 2008
http://current.com/topics/32967339_burning_man

Flaming Lotus Girls and Mutopia, Make Magazine TV, Air date Jan 2009
http://makezine.com/