Camper Bios - 2014
Name:
>Knotch<Age: 56
Where I Live: Elfrida, Arizona. Beautiful high desert just north of the border.
Been to Burning Man before? When?
Yes - 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012
Camped with? When?
Camp Incendiary Nation (CIN) 2008
PolyParadise 2009, 2010, 2011,2012
PolyParadise Favorite Moments? Early Arrival and staying over a couple days for MOOP patrol are always favorite moments. I like a trip to the trash fence and the farthest point of the city in the deep playa. I love everything about our time on the playa.
Why Burning Man? Because I’ve never been anywhere like it before in the physical world but its where I live all the time in my mind and dreams. Its like stepping into the real world of an imaginary story.
Burning History: Don Davis, an astro-artist, introduced me to BM over 15 years ago through his writings on the internet. I eagerly waited for his yearly accounts and dreamed about going but, never knew for sure I’d get there. After moving to AZ in 2004, I learned of a BM regional called TOAST. We attended in 2008 and could not stop ourselves from getting tickets and going to our first burn on the Playa in 2008. I haven’t missed a year since, until 2013 when I fell off a trailer, broke my leg and severely dislocated my knee only one week after returning from BM 2012. It has taken 18 months to heal enough to feel playa-able again.
Describe BM: I can’t describe Burning Man. Burning Man is too complex and too intrinsic. BM is things, thoughts, feelings, sites, sounds, smells, experiences, memories, and dreams. It is as impossible to describe as to believe what you experience when you are there.
My Life: Before Burning Man, the seriousness of responsibilities in life played hell with my inner child. From the first time on the playa, the little bastard would not take no for an answer any longer. Little inner child saw a world to play in and that was that. Burning Man changed feelings and attitudes in my life that were etched in steel until the playa dust rusted away the old surface and the winds blasted it clean. BM gave my inner child some finger paint and colored Sharpies and told it to go write on some walls. Getting to know me is not easy but those that do say I'm a pretty nice guy. Did I mention I love Burning Man, all of it, and you too.
>Knotch<