From photo batch review, May 2026. Burning Man, year uncertain.
The photo is from the playa near the Temple: a person in an elaborate teal deer-creature mask, full costume, standing near the Temple entrance.
We stopped. I took a picture.
Then we cried together for a while. He had had a very intense experience at the Temple, and he shared that. No names were exchanged. No explanation was required. We were two people at the Temple, one of them in a deer mask and one of them with a camera, and we cried together and then went on.
Then we kept walking.