This Year's Theme at Burning Toast Man
It's art.
It's bad art.
It's bad art on fire.
By careful observation over the years of other desert events, Burning Toast Man's organizers reiterate that themes are for the weak. If a blank canvas is too intimidating, you may be happier and safer in attending a different event. Real artists don't need constraints. Creativity knows no boundary.
Clues for the clueless.
First, there's Toasty. The Burning Toast Man himself is iconic of the entire event. Toasty is about bread, gunpowder, fire, and the resulting conflagration which ensues; in short, "toast."
Second, there's the obvious epistemological imagery of created sustenance ("bread") which, through the devolvement and convolution proferred by man in a wanton display of waste, angst, and public spectacle, results in something which has an entirely different and novel semiotic basis, but still hews true to its original nature as nourishment for the body ("toast").
Third, there's firearms and fun in the desert. And vehicular mayhem. And music. And burning things.