BAUBO
the
headless
god

Black Rock City is a work of art. But it is not made by the DPW, not by the LLC, it is created by the thousands of people who come there to color between and outside of the lines of the coloring book they set up for us.

The Soon To Be Burned Man represents our city. It may be their Man, but it will always be our city. We have no king. We manifest the city as a collective work of generous collaboration. We do appreciate the canvas but, the framer does not make the painting.

I propose we build a pastiche of the Man's Man. A Woman's Woman: Baubo, the god (in that non-gendered way that any real god is bound to be) without a head. Baubo is all Vulva, the divine cunt out of which all has been born.

I propose we build a gigantic VULVA, using the construction style of the Man, in the center of the open Playa facing the BORG2 Esplanade. We use it in the ways that the temple has been, that Brian's Constellations was used, the way the Man used to be used: to invite participation and comment, grief, longing and joint creation. We provide the parts, as a big puzzle, and let the unwashed construct it, we let it be almost whatever it becomes, and then watch it burn with joy and gratitude.

It will all be constructed of used lumber, be 20' high, atop an 8' platform, with each "leg" riding on a large turntable. The rough turntables will be linked by a crude rope belt, so that when pulled by an participant, they will rotate into either the Man, or Vulva position. Proving, once and for all, that "god" has both genders simultaneously.

On the day of the burn, the Cord will be cut, and Baubo will remain as a Vulva. The Clit will be filled with a rosette road flares, and the legs with waxed burlap and magnesium wire: old school. A small neon transformer, powered by a crappy little solar cell, will be installed, causing the rising of the sun on Sunday morning to generate an arc that will automatically ignite our Beloved Cunt.