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Star Seed is a 40’ tall laser cut steel sculpture by artist Kate Raudenbush in progress for Burning Man 2012. 

This sculpture expresses the story of the evolution of the human spirit from the roots of our culture. In this space in the desert, where no life seems to live, springs an explosion of novelty so life altering, that it could not contain itself, and it began to pollinate the world. 

For innumerable reasons, Burning Man seems to bring out what is best in ourselves and burns the rest away. For many of us, it is this fertile soil of shared experience - where we are at once unplugged from the world and synchronistically tapped into each other - that we rediscover our creativity, our absurdity, our freedom, generosity, trust and our pure raw joy. We feel the vastness of possibility. We feel hope for humanity. We feel it, because we created it. And because we created this seed from this divine ground, we live it fearlessly. Star Seed occupies that space where our earth-bound bodies root in the dust, gather together, and rise to meet our higher selves. 

We are building half of this sculpture in San Francisco, with an amazing crew, and the other half in New York City.  Though we have raised two-thirds of the money needed to build  Star Seed through grants and private donors, we need an additional $30,000 to pay for storage and transportation costs.