# Zencelades: Love Burn 2027 application, every field

Final draft, October 1, 2026, against the live Airtable form
(https://airtable.com/appZEXWPCFtaKm6NA/pag1ytRqyhwaXdZTE/form). The form
times out, so write here and paste. There are no character limits on the
form; Airtable caps a field at 100,000 characters. Items in **[brackets]**
are Andrew's to fill; the packet is not submitted with a bracket left in it,
and the rig's model, rated load and height in particular are entered from
the rig's manual before submission. This is a draft to fill, not a
structural certification: the engineering approval path is the rig manual,
a rigger's check and the October bench test, all named in the answers.
Nothing is submitted until Andrew submits it, and no grant, size or
placement is valid until the Art Committee's Offer Notice.
Questions go to the Art Director, Jack Trash, art@theloveburn.com.

**The ask in one line:** Seed Grant, $3,000 cash, 3 crew tickets, 1 art
builder parking pass, one 20 A circuit. Love Burn's own finance PDF for
LB2024 puts the average cash grant at about $2,096 per project (LB2023:
$2,598); Seed runs $600 to $3,000 for "simple to medium builds, portable
art, or small interactive pieces", which describes this build. The
[resource ledger](grant-resource-ledger.md) itemises a $2,378 to $5,242
cash build; $3,000 covers the low build in full and the artist covers the
rest. The zorb is the artist's; if one had to be bought, its price would be
added as its own line before submission. The supporting documents are
[prior art and mounts](grant-prior-art-and-mounts.md) and
[what Love Burn allows](love-burn-camp-and-vehicle-rules.md).

**What the form can take.** Three things carry the proposal beyond the
text: the ART PROJECT PHOTOS field (JPG or PNG, under 5 MB each, under
20 MB in all; "drawings, photos, whisky-stained napkins"), the BUDGET
SPREADSHEET field (PDF, XLS or CSV only, printable PDF preferred) and
links: a video link (Google Drive, iCloud or any public link, under two
minutes) and a public photo or video drive link inside the committee
description. Nothing else uploads, so every drawing goes in as an image and
every document goes in as a link. The upload list is under ART PROJECT
PHOTOS below; the files are collected in
`docs/design/application/submission/`.

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## Art Submission Information

### Art Project Title
Zencelades **[or "Enceladus Within"; the concept art is lettered
ZENCELADES and the domain zencelades.com is yours, so the packet uses it]**

### Artist(s)
**[Andrew's artist or group name, as it should appear on the website]**

### Art Description (Public Info)
*For the website. G-rated. Two paragraphs.*

Enceladus is a small moon of Saturn with a whole ocean hidden under its
ice. Most of a human body is water too. Zencelades is a glowing moon, eight
feet across, that you can climb inside. Step through its little tunnel, sit
down on the soft floor, and say the words: "I am the man on the moon" (or
woman, or whatever you are). Only then does the moon take you: your own
face, blown up to the size of the moon, appears across its surface, fading
in beneath the ice. The ice cracks around you. The hidden ocean floods
through. Plumes rise from where you sit, and then, slowly, the moon takes
itself back and you are a small person inside a calm world again. Say the
words and it happens again. Climb out and the moon returns to a breathing
loop of ice and water, waiting for the next person. You are not the
audience; you are the show, and everyone outside gets the best part:
watching a friend crawl into a moon, say the words, and become the man on
it.

It is made by **[artist or group]**, **[one line: who you are and what you
make]**, who wanted to put the ocean around us, the ocean inside us and the
ocean on Enceladus into one object a person can sit inside. Two small
cameras inside the moon see only the person sitting in it and record
nothing; your picture exists on the moon while you are in it and nowhere
else, and a switch at the door turns the cameras on when you go in and off
when you leave. Two bright projectors paint the sphere, a little haze in the
air outside makes the beams visible, and a quiet soundscape carries the
story. By day it is a plain white moon on the sand. After dark it is the
show, and so are you.

### Type of Art
**[Choose the closest option: interactive sculpture / projection / light art]**

### Art Description (Not for Website)
*For the art and placement committees.*

The moon is a 2.5 m zorb: a clear TPU sphere with a walk-in tunnel, the
kind built to carry a person, used here as a seat and a projection surface.
One person at a time sits inside on the soft inner floor. The sphere is a
commercial walk-in zorb with external rope mounts; its measured weight goes
on the rigging sheet before any hardware is bought. Its skin gets a light
diffusing treatment (frosted film or a translucent liner, chosen at the
bench test) so it holds a projected image while the person inside stays
visible through it. It sits in a padded steel loop at the centre of a
fabricated steel triangle. The triangle is the piece's one holder and has
two states. Landed: three legs with foot pads pinned to the triangle's
corner plates (the pins join leg to frame, not ground; the pads sit on the
sand with sandbags) stand the moon like a landed probe (NASA's Enceladus
concept is an Orbilander) with its centre at 1.7 m, its floor at knee height
for the tunnel, and its top just under 10 ft: nothing overhead, nothing to
climb, and the configuration in which people go inside. Hung: the legs come
off and the same triangle hangs from a four-leg portable aerial rig the
artist already owns (its model, height and rated load are entered on the
rigging sheet from its manual) on a three-line bridle through a rated
swivel, so the moon can turn freely while the projected picture stays put.
A hand winch with a brake on the rig leg raises and lowers it, a separate
safety sling backs up the hang, and a padded ground cradle sits beneath it
all night, so lowering is a 25 cm ease that takes one person one minute.
The hung state is occupied only if the rig's rated load covers the sphere
plus a person with margin, confirmed from the manual and by a rigger before
the event; otherwise it hangs as the unoccupied night show and lands for
people to go in.

Projection: two Optoma HD146X projectors (3,600 lumens, 325 W each) on 13 ft
telescoping stands about 4 m either side, matched to the projector's throw
ratio; a third projector at 120° is the first upgrade if funds allow. The
concept art shows the next step, short-throw heads on outriggers from the
triangle's own corners, which is the upgrade path, not the 2027 build.
Cameras: two old phones mounted inside the sphere, each framing the seated
person from its side, streaming over a private Wi‑Fi from the artist's own
UniFi router, no internet; nothing is stored. The phones run the project's
own app, which streams camera and mic. A switch at the tunnel, thrown going
in, turns the AV inside the sphere on; thrown going out, off: until someone
is inside, nothing looks or listens. A second switch inside, within reach of
the seat, blanks the cameras and the live image at once, so the person in
the moon can always stop it. Then nothing is projected until the person
inside says "I am the man on the moon" (or woman, or whatever they are);
offline speech recognition on the laptop listens for the phrase through the
phone mics, and the inside switch doubles as the trigger in wind and noise.
The switch and the words are the opt-in. Processing: the artist's laptop
composites the two live feeds with the moon film in real time; a small mini
PC at the projectors receives the finished picture over the same private
Wi‑Fi and feeds the heads over HDMI (the laptop can drive them directly
instead). Haze: the artist's own water-based hazer runs outside the sphere
only, low, for visible beams; never inside it. Sound: one small
weather-resistant speaker, low. Air: the sphere's blower runs continuously
whenever anyone is inside and the tunnel is never closed; the sphere is
never sealed with a person in it.

Occupancy rules, written into the crew checklist: one person inside at a
time; a crew member at the tunnel whenever the piece is open; no going in
while the moon is hung unless the rig's rating covers it; no entry above the
wind limit; the inside switch and the crew member can both stop the show;
the projectors and all electrics stay outside the sphere. The rigging will
be specified for the sphere's confirmed weight, tens of kilograms, plus the
design occupant, not a balloon: a rated swivel, rated rope, and the rig used
within its manual, all subject to confirmation. The rig model, its rated
load, the measured sphere weight and the final hardware list are entered
from the rig manual and checked by a rigger before anything is bought; the
October bench test must validate the diffusing skin with a person inside,
the live compositing, the air and heat inside with the blower running, and
the lowering drill, and time them, before the November purchases. Full
schematics are attached: hung elevation, plan, landed state, lowering,
signal and power, a tree alternative, a six-step construction sheet and a
labeled parts sheet; plus two 3D model renders of the
landed and hung assemblies and two pieces of generated concept art. Photos and videos are at
https://zencelades.com/showtime, the schematics at
https://zencelades.com/application, and the whole open-source build, design
files included, is at https://git.telpher.stream/telpher/zencelades.

### ART PROJECT PHOTOS
*JPG/PNG, under 5 MB each, under 20 MB total.* Upload in this order; the
first image is the thumbnail the committee sees in its list.

1. `submission/01-concept-landed.png` concept art, landed state, a person
   inside the moon with their face on it (2.6 MB)
2. `submission/02-lander-3d-model.png` 3D model render, landed: the 2.5 m
   sphere cut away to show the seat, the tunnel, the loop, the triangle and
   the three lander legs
3. `submission/03-plate-1-hung-elevation.png` hung version, elevation
4. `submission/04-plate-5-plan.png` plan view and footprint
5. `submission/05-plate-3-landed.png` landed state on lander legs, elevation
6. `submission/06-suspended-3d-model.png` 3D model render, hung on a generic
   aerial rig
7. `submission/07-concept-suspended.png` concept art, hung state (2.5 MB)
8. `submission/08-plate-4-signal-and-power.png` signal and power
9. `submission/09-plate-6-lowering.png` lowering the moon
10. `submission/10-plate-2-tree-alternative.png` tree alternative
11. `submission/11-build-steps.png` how it is built, six steps, parts
    numbered
12. `submission/12-parts-labeled.png` every part labeled, with the price
    table on the website

About 10.9 MB total, every file under 5 MB. The concept art and the 3D model renders show the
one-unit upgrade (projector heads on arms from the triangle); the plates
show the 2027 build with the projectors on stands.

### Video Proposal
*Under two minutes. The form says a video moved several grants from Maybe
to Yes. Phone, no makeup, tonight.* A 90-second script:

1. **WHO** (15 s). "I'm **[name]** from **[city]**. I make **[what you
   make]**."
2. **WHAT** (30 s). Hold up the concept print. "This is Zencelades: a
   glowing eight-foot moon you climb inside. Sit down, say the words, and
   your own face appears across the moon, bigger than life. The ice cracks,
   the ocean floods in, and the moon takes you back."
3. **WHY** (20 s). "Enceladus really does hide an ocean under its ice. We
   carry oceans inside us. I wanted one object that holds both, that a
   stranger can sit inside while their friends watch, and that a small crew
   can bring anywhere."
4. **HOW** (25 s). "It's a real zorb, the kind built to carry a person. Two
   old phones inside watch the seat, nothing is recorded, and a switch at
   the door turns them on and off. My laptop blends you into the moon film
   and two projectors paint it. It stands on its own legs like a lander or
   hangs from a rig I already own, fits in my truck, and sets up in an
   afternoon. The whole build is open source. We're asking for a Seed grant
   and three crew tickets."

Upload to Google Drive, set to anyone-with-link, paste the link.

### Theme Camp Affiliation
**[Camp name]**. The moon would stand in the camp's art support area.
Standalone art placement is equally fine if placement prefers it. **[If no
camp: "No theme camp; crew of n; standalone art placement."]** If the crew
is more than ten people, a theme camp application is also filed.

### Social Media Handles
**[IG @ , FB @ , #tags]**

### What type of support are you requesting from Love Burn?
Combination: funds and crew tickets, plus placement and power.

### Grant Type Request
Seed Grant ($600 to $3,000).

### Total Estimated Investment
$**[5,242 + replacement value of the zorb, rig, hazer and laptop + travel]**.
Build it as: Tier 1 cash high $5,242 (ledger), plus the zorb, rig, hazer and laptop
at what they would cost to replace **[$]**, plus travel for the truck
**[$]**. Labour is not valued unless you want it to be; if you add it, say
so in the outline.

### Amount Already Invested
$**[what the design packages, concept art, studio time and the zorb cost to
date]**. Put the number you can stand behind.

### Grant Amount Requested
$3,000

### Art Sponsor Tickets requested (not crew)
0

*Whether sponsor tickets count against the Seed tier is not stated on the
form. The cash field excludes ticket value and the tier examples pair cash
with crew tickets, which says no; but sponsor tickets are offered "instead
of direct cash funding" and Love Burn's finance report books their value as
grant value, which says maybe. Staying at 0 keeps the request unambiguous.
The alternative that is $3,000 under either reading: $2,000 cash plus 2
sponsor tickets, with cash then below the $2,378 low build until the two
tickets are sold to backers. One line to art@theloveburn.com settles it.
Online, nothing defines the tiers beyond the form itself. Sponsor tickets
are codes emailed to approved proposals that the artist resells at a price
the artist sets; Love Burn books them as "Artist Resale Tickets" inside its
total art-grant value, its acceptance terms require unfulfilled projects to
"return tickets before the event or pay back grants funded", and the 2027
ticket page says the event is "shifting from so many Art Sponsor tickets to
pricing artists and general tickets the same". Fewer are being offered this
year, so cash plus crew tickets is the ask that runs with the current.*

### Crew Tickets requested
3 **[adjust to the real crew]**

### Combo of Artist Tickets, Crew Tickets and Funds
$3,000 cash, 0 Art Sponsor Tickets, 3 Crew Tickets (value $1,500).

### Vehicle Parking Passes (Art Builder Cars Only)
1. The 2021 Ram 2500 carries the whole installation and parks where
vehicles park; it is transport, not part of the art.

### Large Vehicle Passes
0

### BUDGET SPREADSHEET
Upload `submission/budget.pdf` (printable PDF, the form's preference);
`submission/budget.csv` is the same data as a sheet if they want one. Both
are generated from the ledger. Prices are retail prices observed
September 30, 2026; allowances are marked and will become receipts.

### BUDGET OUTLINE

| Line | Low | High |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| The moon: the artist's 2.5 m walk-in zorb, plus a diffusing liner or frosting · allowance | $0 | $700 |
| Two Optoma HD146X projectors, 3,600 lumens, $499 to $599 each · observed price | $998 | $1,198 |
| Two 13 ft heavy-duty light stands ($64 each) and brackets · observed price; rain covers · allowance | $284 | $466 |
| Output node: mini PC with two or three video outputs at the projectors ($0 if the laptop drives them directly) · observed price; box and HDMI leads · allowance | $40 | $290 |
| Two old phones inside the sphere running the project's app, camera and mic (owned, or $25 each second-hand) · allowance | $0 | $50 |
| Phone mounts and power banks inside the sphere · observed price | $30 | $44 |
| Two weatherproof switches: one at the tunnel (AV on going in, off going out), one inside within reach (stops the show) · allowance | $20 | $40 |
| Rigging: hand winch with brake, block, rated rope, swivel, slings, shackles, safety sling, straps, sandbags · allowance | $150 | $400 |
| Outdoor cords, inline GFCI, cable ramps, weatherproof box · allowance | $150 | $300 |
| Weather-resistant powered speaker · allowance | $100 | $250 |
| Landed configuration: three legs with foot pads pinned to the frame, mats, sandbags · allowance | $100 | $300 |
| Repair kit, tape, spares, batteries · allowance | $50 | $150 |
| Steel triangle and loop seat, tube and pads (fabricated with a friend's shop; labour in-kind) · allowance | $60 | $180 |
| Contingency 20% | $396 | $874 |
| **Total cash build** | **$2,378** | **$5,242** |

**Cash grant requested: $3,000**, which covers the low build in full. The
artist covers anything above it, and the upgrades, all with the same 20%
contingency: a third projector for a continuous wrap ($902 to $1,345), the
four-projector version ($1,643 to $2,344), and a truss goalpost if the
owned rig does not fit ($1,010 to $1,824).

**Artist provides, already owned or committed:** the zorb, the aerial rig,
the hazer, the laptop that does the real-time compositing, the UniFi router
that makes the private network, the truck, two old phones, all design work
to date, metal fabrication with a friend's shop, content authoring, build,
install, nightly operation, strike, and travel.

### Name of Person Submitting
**[First Last]**

### Phone
**[one number]**

### Your email
**[one email]**

### 2nd Email
**[co-lead's email, or leave blank]**

### Your Artist Website
https://zencelades.com (the domain must be registered and live before
submitting; until then https://muchadoaboutoneside.com/ opens)

### Additional Websites
Source, open to all: https://git.telpher.stream/telpher/zencelades (design
files, schematics, the budget generator, this application). Mirror:
https://github.com/presempathy-awb/zencelades **[private until the first
public release; make it public before submitting if you want both links to
open]**.

### Bought Tickets?
**[Yes / No / Tickets are not available yet]**

### Community Involvement of Your Art

The piece only exists when a person is inside it, and only when they ask:
you have to climb in, sit, and say "I am the man on the moon" (or woman, or
whatever you are) before the moon takes you, which makes consent the ritual
rather than a sign, and a switch at the door and a stop switch at the seat
make it yours to end. One person is in the moon; everyone else is the
audience that the theme asks for, and they get the moment people will film
and talk about: a friend crawling into a moon, saying the words, and turning
into the man on it. It is calm enough to sit inside for ten minutes and
quick enough to try in one. The tunnel is at knee height and takes a step
and a crouch, with a crew member's hand if wanted; anyone who would rather
not go in watches from the mats outside, where the show is widest, and the
crew will put a friend in for them. The cameras see nothing but the seat and
keep nothing. By day it is a plain white moon on the sand that promises
something after dark. By night the haze-lit beams make it a landmark you can
navigate by. We will invite neighbouring camps to host a "moon hour" each
night where their people take the seat, and we will teach anyone who asks
how it works, because it is simple enough to explain in a sentence: you sit
in there, and you are the moon. The whole project is open source: the
schematics, the parts list with prices, the budget generator, the phone app
and this application live in a public repository
(https://git.telpher.stream/telpher/zencelades), so any camp at any burn
can build its own moon, and we will help them.

### On-Site Setup and Breakdown Timeline

Arrive Wednesday, February 10, by truck with everything aboard. Setup is one
afternoon with three people: place and level the rig, or the triangle on its
legs (1 h); seat the moon, inflate, and hang it with the winch and safety
sling if the hung state is approved (30 min); set the projector stands,
cameras, mini PC and power with the event electrician (1.5 h); aim and test
at dusk with a crew member inside (1 h). Run dusk to midnight Thursday
through Sunday, one crew member at the tunnel whenever it is lit and
anyone is inside, an inspection checklist at every setup and shutdown, the
moon winched down to its cradle and strapped in rain or wind, a drill
rehearsed and timed before the event. Strike after midnight Sunday or
Monday morning: lower, deflate, drop the rig or legs, pack the truck (2 h),
then a Leave No Trace sweep with a magnet and a bag count. Off site Monday,
February 15, with a clean square of sand.

### Previous contacts concerning your art
**[No; or name and what was discussed.]** No organizer has been contacted
by the project to date.

### Previous Art Project at Love Burn
**[Years and project names, or "First application."]**

### Where else, besides Love Burn, will your art be displayed?

This is a new work; Love Burn 2027 would be its first showing. It packs into
one pickup and sets up in an afternoon, so it is built to travel: a Burning
Man 2027 Honoraria letter of intent goes in this October, and after Love
Burn we will offer it to science museums, planetarium nights and festivals.
**[Add anything already confirmed.]**

### Media and Digital Documentation Acknowledgment
I understand and agree.

### Public Display of Contact Info
**[Yes / No]**

### How excited are you about bringing your project to Love Burn?
**[Honestly: very. One line in your own voice.]**

### Insurance?
**[No / Yes]** (the project carries none today).

### Project Placement Needs

About 33 ft by 33 ft (10 m by 10 m, roughly 1,100 sq ft) of level sand or
grass, with clear sky overhead: a 16 ft freestanding rig in the centre with
a 5 ft clear zone around its legs, two projector stands 13 ft out on either
side, the tunnel side kept clear for the queue and the crew member, and
viewing areas on the other sides. Dark surroundings help. One 20 A circuit
is the only service needed. Dry land only, not at the waterline. If the rig
is not wanted, the landed version on legs needs the same footprint and
stands under 10 ft.

### Where do you want to place this art?

First choice: at **[camp]**, in its art support area, on the land side of
the beach, visible from a distance, away from bright camp lighting and out
of neighbours' projection lines. Second choice: standalone placement
anywhere the 10 m by 10 m footprint fits.

### Do you plan to place your art on the beach?
Flexible either way. Sand is fine (sandbag ballast, no stakes); not in the
water.

### Logistics & Delivery

Everything travels in the artist's 2021 Ram 2500 from **[city]** and leaves
the same way. The truck arrives on the builder day, unloads at the
placement, and parks at Miami Marine Stadium like any car; the kit is
hand-carried in two trips with three people, the rig and triangle first.
No vendor delivery, no trailer, no heavy equipment.

### Theme Camp Placement (if the camp is denied)
Place the art on its own; the crew camps in open camping.

### Permit Needs for Love Burn

Unsure. The art is an inflatable walk-in sphere that one person at a time
sits inside, on three pinned legs under 10 ft, or on a 16 ft freestanding
aerial rig used within its manual: no stairs, nothing to climb on, no
ground anchors; the rig feet and projector stands are ballasted with
sandbags. If an inflatable people enter, or a freestanding rig with
sandbags, counts as a structure needing review, we are glad to be on the
permit the way Sky Bar and Sonic Sphere have been; tell us what you need
and we will supply the rig's manual, the rated-hardware list and the
occupancy rules. If the rig is not wanted at all, the moon stands on its
legs like a landed probe, under 10 ft, nothing overhead and nothing to
climb, and we would rather do that than argue.

### Will you need to access the event site before Wednesday, February 10?
No.

### How many early build crew members need Work Access Passes?
0

### Does your art need ballast or anchors in the ground?
No. Sandbags on the rig feet and stands; no stakes, no buried anchors.

### Does your art have stairs to a second level?
No.

### Is your art larger than 10' in height or larger than 10' in diameter?
Yes: the rig stands about 16 ft; the sphere is 8.2 ft across with its centre
at 5.6 ft, and on its legs its top is just under 10 ft.

### Flame Effects
No. A hazer with water-based fluid, outside the sphere; no flame, no
propane.

### Are you requesting Love Burn power for your art?

Yes: one 120 V 20 A circuit at the placement, dusk to midnight, Thursday
through Sunday. Planning load about 1.5 kW: two projectors at 325 W each
(manufacturer spec), the mini PC, speaker and phone chargers under 100 W,
the hazer per its label when running, and the sphere's blower, which runs
continuously whenever anyone is inside. Everything runs through an inline
GFCI and outdoor-rated cords with cable ramps across walkways. A measured
load schedule follows the October bench test.

### Are you planning to bring your own generator?
Not planned. If event power is not available we bring an inverter generator
under 5,000 W at our own cost.

### Will you need a trucking company or vendor to deliver your art?
No.

### Is Heavy Equipment required to set up your art?
No.

### Anything else you want to share?

Fallbacks, so placement can say yes to any version:

- **No aerial rig or truss allowed:** the moon lands. Three legs pinned to
  the steel triangle's corner plates (pins join leg to frame; nothing enters
  the ground) stand it like a landed probe with its centre at 1.7 m and its
  top just under 10 ft: same projectors, same cameras, same show, nothing
  overhead, nothing to climb, sandbags on the foot pads. This is also the
  state people go inside in.
- **No one inside:** if the committee would rather nobody enter the sphere,
  the same cameras can frame a marked spot outside the moon instead, and the
  person on the spot is projected into it; the rest is unchanged.
- **No event power:** an inverter generator under 5,000 W at our cost, or a
  battery station if power is only intermittent.
- **No haze:** the piece runs without it; the beams are a bonus, not the
  work.
- **No tree, no shoreline:** never assumed; rig or lander legs on dry land.
- **Wind:** nobody inside above the first limit; winched onto the cradle and
  strapped above the second, a drill we rehearse and time before the event;
  above the third, deflated and covered for the night. Wind limits come from
  the rig manual and the rigger's check.

Three honest notes. The concept art is AI-generated and shows the one-unit
upgrade with projector heads on arms from the triangle; the 2027 build puts
the projectors on stands, as the schematics show, and keeps the heart of
the idea, the real-time fade between a person and Enceladus. The build is
deliberately a Seed project: purchased projectors instead of rentals, a mini
PC instead of a media server, old phones instead of broadcast cameras, a
rig and a sphere we already own, steel we bend ourselves. And the funding
plan is honest: the grant covers the low build, anything above it is
self-funded or raised by a small sponsor drive, and if the committee would
rather offer part of the support as Art Sponsor Tickets, we will use them
for exactly that. If this works at Love Burn, the same kit grows into the
one-unit, four-projector version. Everything is open source, design files,
schematics, budget, software and this application, at
https://git.telpher.stream/telpher/zencelades (mirror:
https://github.com/presempathy-awb/zencelades), so the committee can read
the whole build and other artists can reuse it. The video is linked above.

### Rating on Application
**[optional]**