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A little different this year. Party with some bubbles Thursday 11am Bubbles & Bass Now get off that phone and let the pl...
08/30/2026

A little different this year. Party with some bubbles Thursday 11am Bubbles & Bass

Now get off that phone and let the playa do what it do.

Some events this week. BBP party with bubbles Thursday 11am Bubbles & Bass Now get off that phone and let the playa do w...
08/30/2026

Some events this week.

BBP party with bubbles Thursday 11am Bubbles & Bass

Now get off that phone and let the playa do what it do.

2022... Build week. Sunday. Just after midnight.One final nail. Then... silence.For 7 days, the desert had become part o...
08/26/2026

2022... Build week.

Sunday. Just after midnight.

One final nail. Then... silence.

For 7 days, the desert had become part of us. White dust covered my skin in layers. The Gate had just opened, but it felt like we’d already lived an entire lifetime out there. We’d worked through heat, relentless wind, and moments where the easier choice would have been to stop.

But the team never did. And then...it was standing.

I remember looking around at the people beside me and thinking how strangely beautiful life had brought us together. Some had started as acquaintances or brief convos years earlier on playa. At the time, I had no idea those moments were introducing me to the very people who would one day help bring this big crazy vision to life.

Somehow, I knew who to call when the time came.

One of the greatest lessons this project gave me was to trust my intuition, and my ability to gather the right people around this vision.

These were the people I’d laughed with, disagreed with, stayed up until 4 a.m. solving impossible problems with. The people who taught me to weld. The people I’d share 10 p.m. dinners with after 12hour days in the shop.

Together, we built something that had once only existed inside my head until enough people chose to believe in it too.

The craziest part? We never completed a full build before bringing it to playa.

The first time Black! Asé truly stood in its entirety-was here.

It still feels like something that shouldn’t have worked.

As artists begin arriving on playa & the sound of build fills the desert, I know the mix of emotions many may be carrying. The excitement, pressure, exhaustion, anxiety.

I’m rooting for you all. For the newbies-Trust every part of the process that’s happening for you, not to you. Challenges & all.

To every BIPOC artist helping shape the landscape of BRC, thank you for continuing to dream bigger than what feels possible.

Because for one quiet moment just after midnight, standing in the dust beside people the universe had quietly placed in my path years before, I realized that the thing I’d been carrying in my imagination had become real.

I’ll never forget that feeling. 🙏🏾team

2026 update This was a hard one but Black Burner Project wont be on the playa this year. With that being said there won’...
08/24/2026

2026 update

This was a hard one but Black Burner Project wont be on the playa this year. With that being said there won’t be an official BBP BIPOC Family Group Photo.

This year, we’re doing something different.

The group photo has grown into a full production, one that takes real time, planning, and care to do right. So, This year, I made the difficult call to pause it and put that energy into making next year’s 10th Anniversary the best it can be (more to come).

But I’m still planning a way for us to celebrate each other. Thursday at 11am, pull up for a BBP meetup- bubbly included. Details to come. 🥂

Keep an eye for amazing projects you can still support and other events happening on the playa.

~ Erin

This is how it all started. Me right before everything changed. Someone I trusted gifted me a ticket. It changed my dire...
07/30/2026

This is how it all started. Me right before everything changed.

Someone I trusted gifted me a ticket. It changed my direction. That one “yes” became Black Burner Project.

Every year since, I’ve quietly gifted a ticket to a first-timer who needed the break and helped make ticket access easier for others. 

This year I want to know who needs a little help. 

I know we’re just a few weeks out. But if you’re still out there, still looking for a ticket, yet still all in.  A First-timer. You’re Dead serious. This is your year! Ready to go. Looking to make a way no matter. The cost has been in the way. Fill out the App.

If you know Someone who should be there- Nominate them ( fill out the app). 

It means so much to put this in the right hands and to be able to help. 

Link in bio. Apply now. the sooner, the better.

Deciding by end of next week.

06/14/2026

Day 6

I’m just trying to keep up while watching the Knicks..

05/22/2026

I know I’ve been quiet.

I built something real. It cost me more than anyone knew. And I’m finally letting you in.

Not because nothing was happening. But because too much was and almost none of it was visible to you.

Most of you probably assumed there was a whole team behind this. People, infrastructure, financial support. Or maybe you thought BBP was just a camp. I’ve never corrected that assumption because honestly? I didn’t know how. And part of me was proud that it looked that way.

But here’s the truth: the storytelling, the socials, the website, the interviews, the pitches, the DMs, the media placements, the ticket logistics, the prepping virgins, the ticket access, the community calls, the photo shoots, the group photo, the transcriptions, the copy, managing this IG, the mood boards, the vision- that was me. One person. For years. Because I loved you, from the depth of my heart I saw what this could do for people like me and I believed in what we were building together.

The installations- those were real collaborations, real team efforts, real magic made together. But the platform that made all of that possible? That was built in private, mostly alone.

What I didn’t build was a way to sustain myself while doing it. And the Burnout was more serious than I let on.

I have spent years making sure your stories were told. This is the first time I’m telling mine.

I’m sharing this not for sympathy. Honestly. I’m sharing it because I’m stepping out from behind this project for the first time and letting you see who’s actually been here. And because what comes next requires you to know.

Whew! This was hard.

More soon. But first, I just needed you to know.

Erin

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05/07/2026

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03/05/2026

Taking and building art out in the the desert is HARD! I’ll just be blunt and real. It’ll challange you in ways you never expected. It’s also expansive, rewarding, beautiful and inspiring. Oh The things we can do!!!!

Here is a little something that really helped me during that time I was building my first art piece to take to burning man.

It’s a powerful exercises I had no idea I was doing and now I come back to often.

I only realized later, once I was standing in front of the real thing in the heat and dust and even after when I was back home reflecting on all of it did I recognize the power of it. I’m so glad It just fell on me. It makes the story even better.

Throw backI remember vividly taking this photo in front of my camp (street life). In fact a good majority of the portrai...
03/05/2026

Throw back

I remember vividly taking this photo in front of my camp (street life). In fact a good majority of the portraits where taken in front of my camp, not because I planned it that way, but so many people came to my camp to connect I didn’t get to leave much. Haha honestly I didn’t know how I felt about it. I had enjoyed the feeling of uncertainty, riding around playa yelling out to people I saw in the distance and biking fast to catch up to them to pitch this idea hoping they’d say yes to allowing me to capture them like it was my first year of BBP. It would be one of many lessons I’d learn about pivots, adjusting, growth, and connection.

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