Golden hour at the Resonance Tree: the crown full of people, bikes and visitors gathered on the playa below

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The Resonance Tree in photographs, films and documents — the build, the week it stood, and the paper that travels with it.

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Every frame here was made on the playa in 2026 and cleared for publication. Photographs open full size; films play in place; documents open in a new tab.

Golden hour, and everyone came.

First evening open: the Tree lit, the leaves projected on the playa, the first visitors at its roots.

Pink sky from the top of the tree, jackets on, clouds on fire.

The sun lands in the ring.

Someone on top at sunrise, the tree in full silhouette.

The Resonance Tree at first light, lanterns still, playa quiet.

Sun over the top: sunrise silhouette with a climber up high.

Dawn portrait of the tree, entrance open.

Blue hour, crew on top.

The weave up close at dawn, lanterns either side.

Sun through the crown.

The Resonance Tree: woven trunk, arcing canopy, lanterns waiting for night.

One figure passing at dusk.

Chimes against violet.

The doorway at dawn.

Trunk and entrance at dawn.

Crown full, canopy lit, the burn on the horizon: the Tree's best night.

Open to the playa: sunset, a full platform and a crowd below.

Sun through the trunk, crown full of people.

Sunstar through the crown.

Blue hour: the tree lit gold, visitors at the rope.

The crown burning over the dark.

Lit up, and it holds the whole flat.

Arms up to the sunrise from the top of the tree.

Arms wide on top of the tree at sunrise.

Everyone who built it, in front of it.

Day one done: the crew fills the top ring at dusk.

Riding past the tree at sunset, the top full of visitors.

Red ring, white moon, one headlamp: night one on the trunk.

Night build on the open playa: the lit trunk against a moonlit sky.

Mostly sky.

One chime, close up.