Capital campaign one-pager · dm³ Soundworks · Forest Hill, Newark NJ · 2026

A healing walk
becomes a free clinic.

dm³ Soundworks is a contemplative sound work — a healing walking meditation along Newark's old Boonton Line, built on formally verified mathematics (the dm³ operator chain, proved in Lean 4) and offered free to anyone who wants it. The walk ends at Forest Hill — where we are raising capital to build the Newark Wellness Center: a free community clinic, sound studio, workshop space, and garden, anchoring the proposed Boonton Line / Ice & Iron Greenway.

This page makes the case to two kinds of funders — arts & culture institutions, and Church-affiliated bodies — for why this project belongs in the same conversation as the Vatican's own recent commissions in contemplative sound art.

The precedent

The Vatican just funded this exact category of work.

In May 2026 the Holy See opened its second pavilion at the Venice Biennale: The Ear is the Eye of the Soul, a sound-based exhibition inspired by Hildegard of Bingen, framing contemplative listening as "a pathway to spiritual and human renewal." Twenty-four artists were commissioned — including Brian Eno, FKA Twigs, Patti Smith, and Jim Jarmusch — to build what curators called a "contemporary scriptorium" of sonic prayer.

That is, at the institutional level, the same proposition as dm³ Soundworks: sound + contemplation + walking/listening as a path to wellbeing — except dm³ adds a formally verified mathematical spine (the g-series, proved in Lean 4) and a concrete, local destination — a free clinic in an underserved Newark neighborhood.

The comp
Holy See Pavilion · Venice Biennale 2026

"The Ear is the Eye of the Soul" — sound, silence, and listening as pathways to renewal, commissioned across two Venice sites. The Art Newspaper →

The Church on science
Pope Leo XIV · Vatican Observatory, May 2026

Reaffirmed Leo XIII's founding charge: the Church does not oppose "true and solid science" but "embrace[s] it, encourage[s] it, and promote[s] it." Vatican News →

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."Vatican Observatory, on the integration of science and faith — May 2026
The project

What the soundworks already is.

dm³ Soundworks is a free, browser-based listening engine paired with a four-stage walking meditation along the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Boonton Line in Newark's North Ward — from 90 Tiffany Blvd, through Branch Brook Park, to the old Forest Hill station site, ending at Forest Hill. Each stage layers a different sound (ocean tide, mangrove channel, a 111 Hz tone, a Reeb-helix drone) onto a four-step practice — compress, constrain, fold, unfold — that mirrors a formally verified dynamical system (the dm³ "g-series," zero-axiom Lean 4 proof, GitHub: TOTOGT/GTCT).

It is bilingual (English/Portuguese), free to access, and already linked to a planned physical installation on a library circuit in Newark, Elizabeth and New York City (November 2026) and a closing celebration at Branch Brook Park (April 2027).

The ask

A phased capital campaign for Forest Hill.

The walk currently ends at an empty lot. The campaign turns it into the Newark Wellness Center — a free clinic with a sound studio and workshop space attached, anchoring the Boonton Line greenway. Figures below are illustrative starting points for discussion with architects, clinical partners, and funders — not final budgets.

$0.5–1.5MPhase 1
Site acquisition & building shell
Acquire and stabilize Forest Hill; basic build-out for clinic, studio, and workshop spaces; accessibility compliance.
$1–3MPhase 2
Free clinic build-out & first 2–3 years of operations
Clinical equipment, staffing, and operating reserve for a free/low-cost community health clinic — the deliverable a faith-aligned health funder can put a name on.
$0.5–1MPhase 3
Soundworks installation, education lab & greenway partnership
Permanent sound installation, Lean 4 / dm³ education lab for the Cajueiro Workshops, and contribution to the Boonton Line / Ice & Iron Greenway corridor.
~$2–5.5MTotal
Full campaign, phased over 2026–2029
Designed to be fundable in stages — each phase independently nameable, each independently fundable by a different class of donor.
Figures are placeholders for the campaign case statement — refine with a Newark-based architect/contractor estimate and a community-health clinic operating partner before circulating externally.
Two funding tracks

Where this pitch lands.

Track A · Arts & culture

Contemplative sound art + community health

  • Fiscal sponsor: New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), EIN 33-2880433
  • Lead with the Holy See Pavilion comp — the category is institutionally validated this year
  • Targets: Newark Arts (ArtStart), NJSCA fellowship, Dodge Foundation, NEA "Our Town" (arts + community development)
  • Hook: free, bilingual, formally-verified-math art project with a concrete neighborhood deliverable
Track B · Church & faith-based

A ministry of listening and care

  • Lead with Pope Leo XIV's repeated 2026 framing: faith and rigorous science/math as allies, not opposites (Vatican Observatory address, new AI commission)
  • Lead with Caritas/Catholic Charities precedent — Pope Leo's June 2026 visit to a Caritas shelter in Madrid, and his May 2026 audience with Catholic Charities USA
  • Targets: Catholic Extension Society, diocesan social-ministry grants, Caritas-affiliated foundations, Vatican cultural office (via the Dicastery for Culture and Education, which runs the Biennale pavilion)
  • Hook: a free clinic is a corporal work of mercy — the soundworks is the contemplative front door

Next steps: pair this one-pager with the dm³ Soundworks landing page (totogt.github.io/geometry) as the "show, don't tell" leave-behind, and the Vitruvian Approximation paper (Zenodo) as proof of the formal-math credibility.

Contact: g6llc@proton.me · G6 LLC, Newark NJ · Fiscal sponsor: NYFA, EIN 33-2880433

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