Burning Man: the desert festival on the tip of everyone’s tongue in recent times. This past week I finally had a chance to visit the magical Black Rock City, which is erected and razed once a year for ten days in the Nevada Desert. The festival started as a small beachside bonfire in San Francisco in 1986, and has been growing in magnitude and reach ever since, with this year’s event attracting about 68,000 people at its peak. With tickets scarce and a DIY approach that requires all participants to bring their own food, water and shelter, this isn’t your typical festival experience. In the words of one of the artist organizers who presented work at this year’s event, Pablo Gonzalez Vargas, it is “how the world could potentially be.”