Fire in the Belly

Standing Pregnant Between Hope and Fear…

07/30/07

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Fire in the Belly
 

  1. Donate Money For The Art Installation
  2. Gift/Lend Materials For The Art Installation
  3. Build Structures  
  4. Sign Up To Be A Team Lead
  5. Sign Up To Be A Creative Contributor
  6. Assemble Installation On Playa
  7. Host Interactive Experience On Playa @ Installation
  8. Perform Prior To The Burn/Participate In Procession
  9. Share Stories
  10. Promote Installation/Become An Ambassador

 

Welcome to

Fire in the Belly

Every year in BRC, The Man burns at the center of town on Saturday night.
In The Future, a woman and her unborn child will burn there on Sunday night
at 8pm please help her!

 A 13 foot tall pregnant woman stands on the playa flanked by two Playatech pagodas containing altars - a child’s nursery (hope) and a doctor’s waiting room (fear). The Mother is made of horizontal cross sections of plywood held together by rope, and inside her belly, an embryo’s heartbeat pulses. The installation is 100% burnable, and whitewashed to accept the hopes and fears of all parents...  

 Just before The Man burns, The Mother miscarries, revealing a face of anguish. The next night, fire explodes from her womb to consume the installation, right where The Man stood the night before.

 Our experienced team is well along towards bringing this project to the playa, but we need your help to make this vision a reality. We invite you to find a meaningful way to participate.

 

Stories of Loss

Every pregnancy involves a woman’s greatest hopes and fears, and 20% of all first pregnancies in the US are lost pre-birth just as mine was. No one knows why.

We have no ritual for processing this grief in our culture or even a term like ‘widow’ or ‘orphan’ - we just have silent emptiness.

When ‘Fire in the Belly’ burns on Sunday 9/3, everyone in BRC will release this loss in a ritualistic catharsis for every parent that has ever lost a child or could not have one.
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