A Handful of Dust...

A collection of my own photographs from Burning Man. All photos are copyright © Lisa Ohki

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"Anatomy is destiny" - Sigmund Freud 

Woman in Chains 2009

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"My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in and drop out" - Timothy Leary 

Tune In 2009

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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." - Dr Suess 

Storm Trooper 2009

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“Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.” ― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun 

Sunrise Man 2009 

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"A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into." - Ansel Adams

Picture Frame Man 2009

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“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..” - Jack Kerouac - On The Road

Burn Burn Burn 2009

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The Windmills of Your Mind - Noel Harrison

Round like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending on beginning On an ever-spinning reel Like a snowball down a mountain Or a carnival balloon Like a carousel that's turning Running rings around the moon Like a clock whose hands are sweeping Past the minutes on its face And the world is like an apple Whirling silently in space Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEhS9Y9HYjU

Magic Roundabout 2009

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“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole” - William S. Burroughs

Space Rocket 2009

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"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself" - Francois Truffaut

Mirror Wall 2009

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"Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making" - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Acrobat art car 2009

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Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. - Alice in Wonderland

Mad Rabbit

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"Politics is the art of controlling your environment" - Hunter S Thompson

Shiny Disco Ball 2009

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"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

- Maya Angelou

House on wheels art-car 2009

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"Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world." - Shinichi Suzuki

Cubatron L5 by Mark Lotter 2009

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"The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist" - William Blake 

Nowhere Omnibus