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Sonia Sokolova is a San Luis Obispo based artist and a creator of many mediums. Whether she is running her interior design business, or building as Creative Director of an event production company, her work explores relationship within a built environment.

Her most recent sewn sculpture installation, Strange Dinner Party, uses tactile materials to question our ideas of the home, womanhood, as well as process the unconscious world of dreams.

Please help her bring art to the Playa for the first time! She is looking to cover material and transportation costs. 

Born from dusty fairy tales on the top shelf, these cocoons hold you in a warm embrace. The enclosed, intimate moments absorb and play with sound, while also providing a refuge amongst the bustle of the 7:30 Plaza. Participants can crawl inside the smaller dome or lay on their backs to experience echoes and light play. The larger structure fits one or two creatures to gaze out of the upper hole or give breath to the whistling flute growing from within. 

The artist’s goal is to bring more organic and natural shapes to the Burn, something that brings us back to the land, our bodies, senses and each other.  

Environmental sustainability is at the heart of this project’s material selection. The structural beams are made of repurposed trampoline parts with woven fabric tubing stuffed with straw, a material that will be returned back to the land within the artist’s local community after use.  

The loom of life and dreams weaves us together across cultures. The use of weaving in this art installation can elicit a sense of familiarity and belonging for participants. This piece will find new homes at events in California to reach a broader community.