We are the team behind Mebuyan Pulse, a large-scale, walkable, climbable artwork for Burning Man 2026. The project will rise from the desert as a constellation of six interconnected spheres: 23 x 53 x 31 feet.

By day, Mebuyan Pulse will shimmer with recycled and organic materials: 5-gallon water jugs, fluorescent plastic bottles, bamboo, palm-leaf forms, and laser-cut panels.

By night, it will transform through UV-reactive surfaces, multicolor lasers, sky beams, sound, and spoken-word activations into a gathering place for reflection, play, and collective ritual.

The work takes its name from Mebuyan, a goddess from Bagobo mythology in the Philippines: a figure of life and death, nourishment, protection, and transformation.

Our vision is to create a cosmic place of care at Black Rock City, a space where wanderers can climb, gather, sit in stillness, and feel the invisible threads of support that bind us all across cultures, communities, grief, joy, and change in an ever-shifting world landscape.

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GENESIS:

Mebuyan Pulse grows from the bones of Mebuyan Vessel, our 2022 Burning Man installation, but this is not a rebuild. It is a major evolution. We are transforming the original structure with a renewed visual language, an 11-foot laser-cut metal ground sphere, an additional 4-ft suspended sphere, two new access points for safer circulation, expanded lighting, and a sound system for timed activations throughout the week.

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FUNDRAISER:

*** Donations are tax-deductible ***

We have early support from the Burning Man Org, Five Ton Crane, and a couple of generous souls. Now we need to raise the remaining $25,000 to complete fabrication, transportation, lighting, power, safety, sound, and installation.

Every contribution matters. A $25 gift helps buy fasteners and build consumables. $100 helps create the recycled decorative skin. $250 helps support safety materials and structural details. $500 helps fund lighting and electrical systems. $1,000+ helps move the work from plan to playa.

Mebuyan Pulse is built from repurposed and recycled materials, carrying stories of labor, migration, transformation, and belonging. The project connects to Leeroy New’s ongoing Aliens of Manila series and to a wider practice of turning discarded objects into luminous, living forms.

Please donate and share this campaign with friends, artists, Burners, diaspora communities, collectors, and supporters of public art.

See you in the dust...!