Thanks to the talent and generosity of Ryan Hayes we have this photographic record:

arson photos --> www.oneflameinthefire.com/timel...arson/

sculpture photos ---> www.oneflameinthefire.com/timeless-art/

Ranger Sasquatch is right.
I am the other artist whose self-expression was censored at burning man along with the world’s most ready symbol of freedom and I call that terrorism too, Ranger. (Of course, that really does depend on, like Sasquatch said, “what side of the pistol u stand on”). To me the war on terror is really a war on freedom.
For that reason, I spent weeks and months carving a huge, futuristic statue of liberty out of a cedar log and i brought it to share.
Besides the man, the Liberty burn was the first arson since 1999, along with my trailer the Lady stood on and my vital tools and equipment I needed to share the “process of art” with grateful people, who loved my version of liberty and theirs too. Liberty was the only installation besides the Man to so be attacked.
Should we watch people do nasty things to get attention; then use it as a platform to blather; who attack a culture at its most passionate nexus and should we not call them terrorists?
Do they need to burn center-camp next to make their point?
The first defense against any cultural disorder, i think is community awareness so let’s call it what it is. The next is to catch the sick punks and see them fry in a federal penitentiary along with Addis. Let’s see if they like the flames in there.
Burning Man is in danger as long as people use terror to make political statements, especially in light of the ‘08, politically-charged Bman theme…”American Dream”…
Watch for the article I’m just completing, soon to be published: Liberty Torched (The story of the other arson at Burning Man) By Matthew (Timeless) Welter, September, 2007
Any of your insights, images, footage or whiteness to the Liberty arson is needed. We need to stop this trend before it stops Burning Man.
Matthew (Timeless) Welter
Carson City, NV.
www.TimelessSculptures.com
timeless.sculptures@gmail.com