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David Best is an internationally renowned American sculptor. He is known for building immense temples out of recycled wood sheets (discarded while making toys and other punch-outs) for the Burning Man festivals, where they are then burnt to the ground. Best is in Kathmandu to take part in the International Wood Day celebrations being organised by the International Wood Culture Society in association with IUCN and the Nepal Government. He is collaborating with local artisans in Bungmati to build a wooden temple.Three hundred years ago, maybe a wood carver’s son committed suicide in Bungmati. When he was carving something, his emotions found way into his work. Maybe an art collector comes by someday and takes it with himself to auction it in New York. It would sell, not just because it is Nepalese art, but because it has a story associated with it. At the Burning Man festival, we got a letter a soldier in Vietnam had sent to his family before his death. The family was ready to give us the letter so that we could burn it with the temple because they knew that the letter would not become a souvenir one day. When we burn something, we burn it to protect it, not to destroy it.|
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