My friend Mor­ley decided to do a mas­sive project for Burn­ing Man 2009, called Timescale.
Her team recently put together a grant pro­posal packet for the folks at Burn­ing Man Head­quar­ters, and asked me to draw the artist’s ren­der­ing you see above. 

Here’s some more info on the project: 

Timescale is a jour­ney
through 4.57 bil­lion years of planet Earth’s geo­log­i­cal and
bio­log­i­cal evo­lu­tion, extended across one mile (5280 feet)
of open playa. Begin­ning with the for­ma­tion of the Earth
from a cloud of gas and dust, par­tic­i­pants will tra­verse
through time — advanc­ing two mil­lion years with each
foot­step, cul­mi­nat­ing at the present day. Each chap­ter
in Earth’s growth is high­lighted along the way, allow­ing
par­tic­i­pants to appre­ci­ate the trans­for­ma­tion of our
planet and the expo­nen­tial com­plex­ity of liv­ing things.

As par­tic­i­pants travel through the one mile cor­ri­dor of the Timescale
project, each new sig­nif­i­cant chap­ter in the Earth’s his­tory will be marked by an 8-inch square con­crete col­umn ris­ing from the playa sur­face. The 6.5-foot tall col­umn holds a clear box which con­tains a sculp­tural rep­re­sen­ta­tion per­tain­ing to that period of time, and a plaque on the side of the col­umn fur­ther details the story of what occurred dur­ing that chapter.

The final pro­posal was deliv­ered inside a hol­lowed out con­crete block, which housed a guide­book, and a scale model of the project. The model was in the form of a piece of rope, which was tagged with the loca­tion of each con­crete col­umn. It was topped with a piece of acrylic which con­tained the pro­posal and my rendering.

Check out these pho­tos of the whole thing by Nicole

I’m really excited to have helped with this pro­posal, and I’m even more excited to con­tribute some art to the instal­la­tion this summer!