The Dust Bowl @ Burn2

I have unfortunately not had time to post on Flickr about my current Burn2 build while the main parts of the event (this past weekend) were still running. The build will remain up until this-coming Sunday though, so it's not too late to come visit if you like. Several people will have their builds up through this week, and there will still be some events, so there is much to see. :)

 

The current Burn2 theme is "Clockwork Frontier", though I went a little loose with my interpretation. My build is inspired by what came *after* the frontier times in America: the dust bowl era of the 1930s and 1940s. One of the photographers who captured it, Dorothea Lange, also became a large part of the inspiration for my build and my avatar. The cabin is a small gallery of some of her dust bowl photos, as well as a couple photos of Dorothea herself, taken by others.

 

If you are unfamiliar with the dust bowl, it took place in some parts of the middle of the country during the great depression. Lots of people had moved to parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico in the 1890s in search of prosperity. Many were given government grants to set up homestead farms, and it was great in the beginning. Their farming practices and the ever-changing weather in the region combined to create a massive problem after a while, though. By the 1930s, the rains stopped coming. The soil became arid, and could no longer support the agriculture people had moved there for. The once-fruitful soils dried out and blew away, and contributed to massive dust storms which only intensified problems for the people there. A lot of folks suffered immeasurably in America during the great depression, and few places were hit harder than the dust bowl regions. It would later come to represent the tragedy of that time period as a whole.

 

If you'd like to learn more about the dust bowl, there are signs on both support posts on either side of the porch that link to videos about it. There's also a free gift in one of the grain sacks that contains the sky setting intended for this build (the one you can see in the photo). I made it extra dusty.

 

Here's what I used to make this build (that you can see or mostly see):

 

The shack/cabin: DRD - Hunters Retreat - Cabin

Windmill: Mansion creations - Antique Windmill

Fencing: This and That - rope fence

Barrel: [ Cabal ] - Water Barrel

Table: ~Nika & Bear~ - Garden table with box and soil

Grain sacks (retextured by me): Wolves Virtual Project - WVP FULL PERM Mesh: 3 sacks of wheat

Signs on the support beams on either side of the porch (sign portion textured by me): DRD - GG - Rustic Halloween boards (unlinked to use one of the boards)

Flag (retextured by me with a 1930s American flag -- only 48 stars back then): F-Factory - Waving flag: USA

Land form #1 (retextured): Little Branch - Young Tibetan Cherry - 4Seasons - Hill landform from this pack

Land form #2 (retextured): Studio Skye - Woodland Path

Crop rows: T-Spot Mesh - Dirt Rows for Vegetable Gardens

Water pump: The Black Forest - Hand Water Pump

Longhorns: Nature's Call - Steer Horns - Brown Leather Tooled Edges

Handcart: .:shamhat:. - wooden handcart

Wagon wheels: Argyle Builders - Wagon Wheel Set

Photo frames inside the cabin: [D]oppleganger - Bitch Framed Word Art (Pearl) [tinted]

Desk: Crocodoggle - Seaford Compact Desk - Beech

 

 

Location: The Dust Bowl @ Burn2

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