Gregg Adams

San Carlos, California

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Gregg’s day job is as a Trauma Surgeon, so making his art is a necessary task for regrounding and creation in a world that can require much emotion and energy.  He works in woods and metal to create practical and whimsical artwork, a blend of functional and fanciful. What started as a rocking cradle for his son 30 years ago has resulted in a perpetual joy in the fashioning of a wide variety of wood art, toys, tools and furniture. After the discovery of the Burning Man Project in 2014, his focus has shifted to metal and fire art.  He has worked on two pieces with the Flaming Lotus Girls that have been brought to the Playa and was lead artist on their 2017 Burning Man Honorarium piece, NOETICA. He has always strived to design pieces that meld form and function, and that explore the interaction between movement and what the eye perceives.  

Gregg’s Tree

The Phi Tree

The tree will be a steel structure of multiple overlapping pieces creating the trunk and branches, with a canopy of CNC cut steel, creating leaf-like shade and shadow. 

Each piece will be shaped and grounded in the Golden Ratio  

To celebrate our return to Black Rock City and the continual rebirth of nature, there will be within the tree a small recess, in which a nest of eggs is sheltered, and on the branches a triumphant singing bird.

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