Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago
Recorded in Black Rock City, you can hear the grainy gravitas of their voices…
For decades now, Jon Sarriugarte, Kyrsten Mate, their daughter and their team build mobile art.
From a meter maid cart turned space shuttle, to a custom copper retro fire snail on wheels, their creations make up part of BRC’s moving landscape. They built a trilobite to ride, a gilded golden zeppelin car, and a noir submarine buggy.
Then there are the Serpent Twins.
Born in 2011, these 50-foot long slithering dragons ripple with color with a touch to their LED skin.
What about this green insect rocket?
Project: EMPIRE returned to BRC with even more sights, sounds, and stories. It’s a NASA spaceship and a giant bug, a bewildering blend of art, engineering, and a delightfully conspiratorial backstory…
On playa we tracked down Jon and his daughter Zolie who has been Burning her entire life. They shared stories of the absurd early days, and the adventure of navigating the desert in a two-ton masterpiece.
We talked about bringing radical self-reliance to the default world, and the mechanics of a legacy built, piece by painstaking piece, in the name of art.
LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG
Recorded in Black Rock City, you can hear the grainy gravitas of their voices…
For decades now, Jon Sarriugarte, Kyrsten Mate, their daughter and their team build mobile art.
From a meter maid cart turned space shuttle, to a custom copper retro fire snail on wheels, their creations make up part of BRC’s moving landscape. They built a trilobite to ride, a gilded golden zeppelin car, and a noir submarine buggy.
Then there are the Serpent Twins.
Born in 2011, these 50-foot long slithering dragons ripple with color with a touch to their LED skin.
What about this green insect rocket?
Project: EMPIRE returned to BRC with even more sights, sounds, and stories. It’s a NASA spaceship and a giant bug, a bewildering blend of art, engineering, and a delightfully conspiratorial backstory…
On playa we tracked down Jon and his daughter Zolie who has been Burning her entire life. They shared stories of the absurd early days, and the adventure of navigating the desert in a two-ton masterpiece.
We talked about bringing radical self-reliance to the default world, and the mechanics of a legacy built, piece by painstaking piece, in the name of art.
LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG
