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.
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
“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
