PHILOSOPHY AND PURPOSE
The aim and purpose of The Universal Traveling Workshop at Burning Man is to provide the necessary tools and materials for attendees to express, explore and expand their own creativity in a broad variety of media, and to have the opportunity to experience as fully as possible the amplification of the creative faculty which I and very many others have felt on the Playa.
In terms of the American Dream, the project relates strongly to a dream which I believe was a powerful reality before the structure emerged which is the America of today. Tens of thousand of families abandoned the security of familiarity, sailing the ocean to realize a dream of opportunity and growth, knowing, or, at least, learning,that they would survive only through application of their own resourcefulness and ingenuity and their ability to make the best use of what was available to them.
It is a great pleasure to find yourself impelled by the difficulties of the desert towards a solution which does not require a trip to Home Depot.