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The sight of a strange building rising from a Petaluma field could only mean the Burning Man arts festival is nearing, and artist Michael Garlington is once again swinging for the seats — one last time.
Garlington and a team of artists are constructing his Chapel of Babel, a 60-foot tower clad in his whimsical photography, filled with shadow boxes and fussily crafted tchotchkes. He describes the structure as a photographic sculpture.
“It was just slowly collecting these fantastical pictures to have enough where I could clad something to this degree,” Garlington…
