Ardent Heavy Industries is thrilled to announce that Timescale will be a funded Burning Man honorarium art installation for the 2009 event! What began as a geeky geology idea more than five years ago can now become a reality: a mile long art gallery, inspiring participants to learn more about the history and evolution of our planet Earth.

We didn’t chose to create theme art, it’s more like the theme chose us. The idea for a scaled representation of geologic time was already rolling around in our conceptual project queue, and 2009 seemed like the perfect year to translate the idea into reality. When we heard that this year’s theme would be Evolution, we had no choice but to make Timescale happen.

The entire Ardent crew is gearing up for a busy spring and summer. We’re cleaning and organizing our new shop, testing various concrete mix designs, and spending hours upon hours drawing things up in CAD and choosing just the right components to use in assembling the Timescale columns. We will be putting out the official call for column artists in the next few days, so stay tuned.

Once again, a HUGE HUZZAH to the Burning Man organization for choosing to fund our project, thereby allowing us the resources to spread our geeky joy over a mile long line in the desert!

Tags: Burning Man

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