It was one of three by students in visual arts professor Rod Strickland’s sculpture class featured at the festival. The event attracted about 2,000 spectators to watch the burning of straw and wooden structures.

Watch a video of the lighting of the sculpture above on the UWindsor YouTube channel.

Art students light one of about 400 flower-shaped lanterns.

Water lilies float on the field before larger sculptures at the 2011 Fahrenheit Festival.