Editor’s note: With Black Rock City once again rising up amid the great sandscape of Nevada’s desert expanse, we thought now would be a good time to take another look at the fantastical work of Humboldt County’s own Duane Flatmo, whose dragon creation is part of the Smithsonian’s No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man […]
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Duane Flatmo’s Dragon Heads for the Smithsonian
How do you pack a giant, flaming scrap-metal monster on wheels? Artist and Burning Man regular Duane Flatmo has done it plenty of times with his iconic fire-spouting octopus “El Pulpo Mecanico.” But now he’s shipping the fiery dragon he built in 2009 to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. The museum will display the gleaming […]
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Micki Dyson Flatmo’s Resistance Couture
Micki Dyson-Flatmo was never a political artist. But now her backyard studio in Eureka is crowded with dressmaker’s dummies swathed in tulle, metal and plastic — wearable expressions of life in the Trump era. Her show Dating Chaos: What to Wear opens at the Morris Graves Museum of Art this weekend, combining costuming and abstract […]
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A Star is Born and El Pulpo be thy Name
Humboldt County’s most famous flaming octopus has fully arrived on the national stage. El Pulpo Mecanico, the brainchild of Kinetic hall-of-famer Duane Flatmo, has for years been appearing at Burning Man, an arts festival in the Nevada desert, and has become a favorite of its cult-like following. But now, the fire spewing machine is going […]