It may well be. But I am thinking it is there as an artifact of some other thing they did with the data. So it is not there with a purpose to show us the way to read the data, but rather it is there as the result of some other thing and we exploit it (thanks to alphabetcanary) to get the order on data. In the same way, we may find a way to exploit other regularities.
It's what I noted in one of the posts above, that if "1flamen6" is a clue, and some encoding only needs 5 bits (like Bacon26) but they used 6 bits, then 6th bit will always be NULL, hence after XOR'ing with 011010, 011 pattern will prevail all throughout the stream of 152 flames. They XOR'ed this or multiplexed it with 011. Either way, it was intentional cause "no brute-force needed" rule would otherwise be broken (we wouldn't know the reading order).
PS. Keep in mind the Art has 011010 twice (ribbons and the Bishop), where in Bishops case, the first 0 is a mirror (like in the "codec" analysis in my earlier post). The 011 also exists, in the "melting" points coming from the Bishop. Interestingly, the last melting droplet points at the exact flame that is the "mirror" in the codec line.