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The many moods of the Sphinx Gate @thesphinxgate @jasonchasedesignerofawesome #thesphinxgate #Burningman2025 #burningman  #burningmanphotos #tomorrowtoday #thankyoularry #egyptianart #bigart

✨ In the heart of the desert, music rises, carried on the wind. An orchestra plays among the sands, weaving sound through the souls of seekers.
Breath, Body, Mind, Heart, Destiny, and Community converge, and the truest self awakens — radiant, alive, and in harmony with this fleeting, sacred moment. ✨ Art: The Sphinx Gate @thesphinxgate @black_rock_philharmonic Drone: @worldwidecitizens Location: Black Rock City @burningman #BurningMan #BurningMan2025 #BlackRockCity #ThanksLarry #PlayaMagic #MysticalJourney #DesertMagic #playamagic

Forbes just covered Sphinx Gate. 👁️ And what got them excited is this idea of inner hygiene. Inner hygiene is the practice of metabolizing your emotional (and somatic & inner world) experience. The janitorial work of the soul. Most of us were never taught how to do it. So we don’t. We push through, check out, scroll past it. And we are paying for it collectively in ways that are really starting to show. The Mini Sphinx Temple we piloted last week is basically an emotional washing machine. You walk in with whatever riddle life is handing you. You sit with it. You feel it. You process it. You come out wiser. And maybe that’s also the antidote to some of the collective riddles humanity is dealing with right now. Glad Forbes is paying attention. Link in bio. 👁️ **And just wanting to give a big nod to psych*delics and the integration process as that’s been one of the biggest inspirations behind all this!✨ Thank you @andrew_deangelo for telling the story Thank you @lovely_jayme for the incredible photo Thanks @burningman for making it all possible And forever thanks to the incredible team that built it!

There is a blind spot at the center of human experience. Most of us never learned how to process the hard stuff. Which is why our team is art-ing our hearts out to birth some baby sphinxes. This week our noses are down to the grindstone as we get ready for @everywhen_project ! Want to help, volunteer, or donate? Visit SphinxGate.com ♥️ #thesphinxgate #everywhen #portal #art #donate

Spinning the Sunrise Opening the Gate Every moment is on time Never early or too late The Oracle Awakens Children of the Dawn Heartbeats are aligning To the rhythm of The Won Victory for those Who answer kindness’ call Loving the world by loving the self Great Mystery Embraces All. ~II Costuming/poem: @ish_factor Stills: @thorgodofbass @thesphinxgate full reel coming soon

Spring is springing and baby Sphinxes are being born 🌱 Burning Man made one thing clear: people are craving spaces like this. In the months that followed, we heard it again and again from those who passed through the Sphinx Gate. How rare it felt to finally put words to what they were carrying. So we got to work conceiving a more accessible portal. Ones to be experienced by everyone, everywhere. When the invitation came from the folks at Everywhen to bring a Sphinx temple, it felt like one more synchronicity guiding this whole journey. We are sharing first renders of the baby Sphinxes, just 7 feet tall, arriving in their new home hopefully by the end of this week. You can meet them in Santa Cruz @everywhen April 17-19th! Find the link in our bio 🎟️ Thanks to all the amazing humans making this possible♥️ Temple Design @jasonchasedesignerofawesome Sphinx Design @goosem69 and @bigfunstuff #sphinxportal #everywhen

*Update: Sending them home to their Dad @jasonchasedesignerofawesome in San Diego Help! The Sphinxes need a new home We have about a month before the Big Sphinx frames need to leave their current abode. But the universe is gracing us (this weekend only) with access to heavy moving equipment - the kind that normally costs around $1,800 to rent - available through dear friends- so putting the feelers out in case (w a little urgency) in case there’s a good home available sooner rather then later? ;) 
We’re looking to store 2 flatbed worths of large sculptural frames (as seen in the 2nd picture) - for anywhere from 3 months to a year, but no more. Can be outdoors, storage only, no assembly. Just a temporary home until we resume building for the big sphinxes. Know anyone? All help is deeply appreciated! Including help with trailer/transport connects! 🙏🙏🙏 #burningman #sphinxgate

💪Today a new chapter is starting. But before we share too much- let’s wrap up the last chapter. Burning Man )’( The one that was bigger than any of us could have dreamed. Honestly, I still can’t fully explain how it came together. Crazy synchronicities. Impossible timing. People showing up exactly when they needed to. Being the steward of something like this is its own kind of adventure, humbling, crazy, and unlike anything any of us have ever done before. We built the big thing. Now comes the small thing. More to say about the mission and to share some of the epic drone footage so many talented folks captured (a bit here by @dadryp and @worldwidecitizens and @ezra ). Stay tuned- and please join us at @everywhen_project mid April to meet the baby Sphinxes!! Thanks to the many many people who made this possible #burningman #sphinxgate

Since the Burn, so much has been percolating and we can’t wait to share. Next week, the build begins again:) We’re bringing a mini sphinx portal- a space for the hard stuff, a ritual for the riddles of our mind. So grateful to the @everywhen_project & @soundgarden for inviting us to bring this to life - and we’d love for you to join us alongside @beatkittymusic , @king_kairos_ , @aguamayyim , and so many more extraordinary humans. April 17th through 19th, in the Santa Cruz woods. Come find us!:)♥️

Two weeks ago I hung up my leathers, swept my booth, and closed the curtains. I had just completed UAS’s basic welding class. A journey that had begun with a phone call to @laynajoyart in a public park in Mascota, Jalisco had ended, for now. This past August-September I got to be a part of one of the most inspirational and aspirational projects I’ve ever seen. @thesphinxgate . Part big art, part transpersonal transformation. It brought an experience to Burning Man that invited people to get in touch with the deepest parts of themselves and if ready let some of those parts shift. Inspired by the Neverending Story, the main aspect of the piece were two 35’ tall sphinxes that stood in deep playa, beacons seen far and wide. Part of my excitement about working on the project was learning to weld, but by the time I arrived at the Loom in Oakland in mid August to help, the metal frames for the bodies and the majority of the welding work were already on their way to playa. Luckily my timing lined up such that @laynajoyart and I got to collaborate and create the breasts. Cold bending metal, we cut, shaped, sculpted, and welded two 8’x10’ busts. She showed me how to create a molten pool and attach two pieces of metal together, piquing my curiosity, but still leaving much to learn. Two days after that final welding class some of the people who worked on the project got together in Oakland to celebrate and reflect on what we created. The synchronicity of this gathering happening within days of me completing the welding course made me smile and laugh a little about the way life unfolds. While I didn’t learn to weld as a part of the project, I learned valuable lessons about myself: my habits, my tendencies, my boundaries, my capacity, my resilience, and a myriad of other things. Working with the amazing people I did, I realized how immersive collaborative experiences like that can bring us in contact with the things that we most need to learn. As I build a life here in Juneau, I’m integrating those lessons and pursuing things that are aligned with that learning. Taking that which I know and that which I’m curious about to create something new. Welding.

Any excuse to honor the love we choose; ✨Friends, Lovers, Co-conspirators. Happy VDay, Sphinxter family ♥️ (Please tag these humans if you know them!) @burningman #burningman #sphinxgate