“There’s an endless menagerie of imagined animals we bring with us to Burning Man.” This year’s theme is Animalia.
Art themes can mean as much, or as little, as you want them too. There’s no rule that says art at Burning Man has to fit in with the theme. I guess a good way to decide how inspirational a theme is to Burning Man artists would be to look at how much art seems to fit the theme.
My first year was 2018 when the theme was “I, Robot” when there were just a ton of cool robots all over the playa, including a dozen very diverse robots standing sentinel around the man base.
Photo courtesy Duncan Rawlinson, https://duncan.co.