About Quagga Landing

Quagga Landing is an Afrikaburn art collective and this website is an independent publication launched in June 2025 by Lynetia Botha. The story of Quagga Landing is a story of creating burner art. What started as a small burner family changed over the span of 7 years from being complete virgin burners to then being inspired to become an art collective and creators of mutant vehicles and artworks.

Art plays an integral role within the Afrikaburn context. In the expanses of the desert art has a transformative power to move you and change you. Sometimes art brings out feelings that you never knew existed. Sometimes art guides you through something, taking your hand and nudging you to a different mindset. You simply cannot leave Afrikaburn, or any burn, unaffected and unchanged by the artworks you've experienced. Same for crews and artists, they simply cannot depart the same person than when they arrived. These experiences has a way of shaping and moulding you.

Art helps to tell a story or convey a feeling that words has simply failed to do. Even more; art helps us to listen to these stories and share these feelings. This in itself is the most transformative gift I have ever received from art at the burn.

The ephemeral essence of art at Afrikaburn and the process of building artworks have moved me in ways I cannot explain. It fundementally changed me, and like one of my mentors reminded me when I complained about this: it changed me for the better.

The Quagga Landing Collective's journey is a story of building art to burn it. The art at Afrikaburn brought out the little kid inside and that kid said: I also have something to say, I also have a story to tell, I also want to play. We called that kid Quagga Landing.

This publication aims to share some of these stories, the stories of art that was built to burn. Sometimes about the artists, collectives and the crews who built it and gifted it, sometimes about the ones who were moved and transformed by it. Sometimes we will use this as a chance to feature the work of the incredible photographers who captures these short-lived moments so that others can have a glimpse into the fleeting yet magical moments of the existence of these works. (Sometimes we might even desperately hustle a fundraiser here).

Either way, we welcome you here with humble hearts.

The Quagga Landing Collective