A 45-foot-tall statue of a nude woman, weighing in at 16,000 pounds, will greet visitors on the Mall for four months if activists have their way. Cochrane designed the statue for Burning Man in 2015 and is now storing it in his studio space outside San Francisco. A work by artist Marco Cochrane at the 2015 Burning Man festival in Nevada. The Catharsis on the Mall festival will run Nov. 10-12 — the third year for the event in the nation's capital. “They are so overwhelmed with this radical inclusion and these principles that we are trying to bring to the world outside of Burning Man.”

Source: Washington Post October 03, 2017 15:18 UTC