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Petaluma Argus-Courier
Sculptor Zulu Heru: Burning (Man) to create
Artist Zulu Heru works on his latest piece, “Farmer the Rigger”, a metal sculpture that will be displayed at Burning Man. Zulu built the massive mask at Marco Cochrane's warehouse in Petaluma.
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Times Herald
“From Scrap to Spirit: The Builders Behind ‘Whispers of Waste’”
San Francisco-based artist Zulu Heru constructs “Whispers of Waste” sculpture with the help of Vallejo resident Maurice Hightower
Vanguard Newsgroup
“Whispers of Waste: At India Basin, Art, Ancestry, and Community Power Rise Together”
Rising from the landscape of India Basin, Whispers of Waste is anchored in contradiction: industrial scrap transformed into sacred form.
Hyperallergic
“Burning Man’s Black Vanguard”
“Coverage of the Black vanguard at Burning Man, celebrating artists pushing scale, craft, and cultural memory across the playa.”
Gallery Route One
“Zulu Heru: Rule #2”
Gallery Route One Fellow Zulu Heru shows scrap metal Afrocentric masks and sculptures—ritualistic objects that tell stories of urban environments with an ancestral aspect
NBC Bay Area
“After sculptor breaks hand, art community comes together to help finish 20-foot Burning Man piece”
For most of this year, Zulu Heru, a sculptor from Oakland, has been working on a large-scale sculpture to be installed at Burning Man called Farmer The Rigger. When he broke his hand, it didn’t look like he’d be able to finish in time. Other artists then stepped in to lend their hands. Garvin Thomas reports