But the volume of masks used for the Lung-ta Memorial installation would have been too large for a street art intervention, and the fact that the project was also partially funded by the European Burning Man community was the determining factor for the final reuse of the prayer flags, that of the future realization of the Lung-ta Temple for Nowhere 2022, the official festival of the Burning Man European community, where prayer flags will become part of a “sacred space” for the community, in the classic tradition of Burning Man Temples.

In addition to re-use for the temple at Nowhere 2022, about a thousand surgical masks will be used in the installation Lung-ta Remixed, created for the Room Beats event at Together Mansion on the occasion of Rome Art Week 2021. But Lung-ta Remixed will last only one day, and the masks used at the Together Mansion will still flow into the creation of the Lung-ta Temple.

There is therefore always room for a street art intervention. After all, Tibetan prayer flags are intended as a stable element in the places where they are installed, where they will let be and bless until they are consumed by the interaction with natural elements. The two days of exhibition at the T.A.G. gallery, as well as the day of use at Together Mansion don’t do justice to the spirit of the prayer flags, and neither does the use in the Lung-ta Temple for Nowhere, albeit for a sacred space and for the week of the festival in the Los Monegros desert.

So, armed with flags / masks, Burningmax wandered around Rome for a day, delivering permanent street art interventions in some of his favorite neighborhoods in Rome. You can see the interventions of Lung-ta Street Art in the photo gallery below.

Here are some pictures of the street art interventions made for Lung-ta Street Art in various locations around Rome. The street art interventions will be implemented gradually, and the locations chosen by Burningmax are: Esquilino, Celio, Monti, Tiburtino, San Lorenzo, Pigneto, Casilino, Torpignattara, San Saba, Testaccio, Ostiense, Garbatella, EUR e Lido di Ostia. Follow the photo gallery below to keep discovering all the Rome street art interventions as they are carried out.