Participants at Coney McConeface: The Life and Death of a Traffic Cone by Chris "Kiwi" Hankins and the ConeCophony Collective from Dargaville, New Zealand and Reno, NV Coney McConeface is a larger than life traffic cone. At 60 feet tall he will tower over the playa. He is painted in bright safety orange and reflective silver bands. He has steam rising around and through him. This steam is coming from a crack in the playa caused from geothermal activity deep below the surface. Coney has been built on top of this geothermal activity to project the citizens of Black Rock City from falling into the cavity and and being injured or burnt. Coney is a symbol of safety and protection, an image we all very familiar with in our day to day lives…traffic cones are everywhere… URL: https://www.conecophony.com/
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Participants at Coney McConeface: The Life and Death of a Traffic Cone

Photo by: Duncan Rawlinson

Year: 2024

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Participants at Coney McConeface: The Life and Death of a Traffic Cone by Chris "Kiwi" Hankins and the ConeCophony Collective from Dargaville, New Zealand and Reno, NV Coney McConeface is a larger than life traffic cone. At 60 feet tall he will tower over the playa. He is painted in bright safety orange and reflective silver bands. He has steam rising around and through him. This steam is coming from a crack in the playa caused from geothermal activity deep below the surface. Coney has been built on top of this geothermal activity to project the citizens of Black Rock City from falling into the cavity and and being injured or burnt. Coney is a symbol of safety and protection, an image we all very familiar with in our day to day lives…traffic cones are everywhere… URL: https://www.conecophony.com/

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