Faced with the realization of the exuberance of our lifestyles, the Midas Tear is also an ecological alarm signal and a symbolic awakening that unites us!
This wooden tear is a drop of oxygen that decarbonizes the future and re-enchants possibilities by inviting us to reflect on living, mimetic architecture, in symbiosis with our environment!
Its aura encourages us to dream of the emergence of new models that promote cooperation and re-enchant the world.
It is moving to find ourselves faced with a 40-feet wooden tear, created through collective effort and benevolent cooperation, wanting to create a symbol that gives all burners and the world a positive and enthusiastic message for the future!
This original Piece of Art invits us to enter to the Agora of the future…
We will emerge transformed, nourished by a light of truth, a feeling of sharing the sacred.
A MAGICAL AGORA IN THE DESERT
Shaped like a drop, « The Tear of Midas » takes on its full meaning in the middle of the Nevada desert, which it embraces like a jewel.
This piece of art with golden proportions is also the symbol of water, and the emotion of tears… It imposes its drama on the space, combining the rigor and harmony of its composition with the vigor and depth of the feeling it evokes.
The elevation of its self-supporting volume, the harmony of its curves, and its shadow projections in the desert, fit wonderfully well with the Burning Man setting, creating a work of Fine Art.
A drop of gold in the desert…
Also the public can benefit of this Art work like an open space that invites people to gather : Its cardinal points open onto four large temple doors, each 16 feet high.
It is round at its equator, resembling a small wooden Eiffel Tower, or a cathedral bell tower that is both modern, sacred, and mythological. Its spire is a 24-foot cosmo-teluric chimney that connects us to the sky.
It’s an open space, like an agora, that can host speaking circles, silence circles, or meditation circles, times of reconnection with nature and the universe.
It’s possible to connect with the earth and the sky by sitting inside a giant droplet placed on the ground. It’s a powerful symbol of hope for the future and communion with nature.
Burners can contemplate this giant droplet, motionless, placed in the middle of the desert, and let their thoughts wander and crystallize.
They can enter inside, feel the energy flowing through it, and connect with it.
They can also play with the shadows cast by the sun, which change throughout the day.
They could also contemplate the shadows of the uprights of the framework lit at night like a lighthouse, a lantern, which invites us to dream, which sanctifies our memory of a unique, extraordinary, and unprecedented moment.
PHILOSOPHY
Excess sooner or later leads to the downfall of destinies.
The original myth of King Midas and Dionysus, god of intoxication and ecstasy, focuses on the quest for happiness and the critique of greed and the accumulation of wealth to achieve it.
This myth invites us to question the search for the essential, and the despair of blindness.
The Tear of Midas itself exposes this paradox between the excess of our civilization and the joy of contemplating life.
The myth tells us …
King Midas took Dionysus’ father, who was wandering drunk, into his kingdom.
Dionysus, to thank him for saving his father, rewarded him by offering to grant his wish.
Midas wanted everything he touched to turn to gold. As a result, he quickly became very wealthy but desperate because everything he touched died and deprived him of all happiness.
Unable to eat, drink, or love, Midas begged for his gift to be taken away.
He then had to bathe to wash away this torture and return to a normal life.
The Midas tear is, above all, a moment of awareness and relief.
It is the golden tear that flows down the king’s face like a sense of truth, at the moment he realizes he has been able to rid himself of this fatal gift, which was leading him to disaster.
We are living through a historical era, we are shifting paradigms, and this symbolic parable questions us about the challenges of the 21st century, the ecological transition, and how we can act.
We must become aware of the role and effectiveness of nature, take care of it, and keep it close to us, as if it were made of gold… Nature is so precious that it determines our future on the planet.
How can we protect landscapes and enhance living things on an urban scale?
This call for symbiosis is the key to awakening.