#Arteetude 341 — Detlef Schlich speaks with musician, artist, designer, project manager and builder Buko Pan Guerra, also known as Buko Sinigayan, about her vision for Golden Mirage Ranch in Leona Valley, California. This conversation explores rejection, resilience, land, animals, music, community and the courage it takes to keep building when life has already asked too much. The episode ends with Buko’s powerful song “In Search for Power”.

In Arteetude 341, Detlef Schlich welcomes back musician, artist, designer, project manager and builder Buko Pan Guerra, also known as Buko Sinigayan, for a deeply human conversation about survival, rejection, land, animals, music, community and the strange courage it takes to keep building when life has already asked too much. Buko has spent decades helping other people’s visions become real — working across art, music, construction, education, entertainment, design, theme-park environments and complex project management. Now she is building something of her own: Golden Mirage Ranch in Leona Valley, California. But Golden Mirage Ranch is not just a ranch. It is a place for rescued animals, nature, music, workshops, food, learning, healing and community. It is where many of Buko’s lives come together: the artist, the musician, the project manager, the daughter, the caretaker, the survivor and the dreamer. This episode is not simply about a fundraiser. It is about dignity. It is about creative resilience. It is about what happens when an artist refuses to disappear. It asks: How does an artist survive rejection and still build a place of care, land, animals, music and community? The episode ends with Buko’s powerful song “In Search for Power” — a fitting musical closing for a conversation about vulnerability, survival and the search for strength. You can Donate here on Bukos Website https://goldenmirageranch.com/ https://www.instagram.com/goldenmirageranch/ https://www.gofundme.com About Detlef Schlich Detlef Schlich is a rock musician, podcaster, visual artist, filmmaker, ritual designer, and media archaeologist based in West Cork, Ireland. His artistic practice moves between performance, photography, painting, sound, installation, film, music, podcasting, and digital image-making. Across these fields, Schlich reflects on the human condition, the relationship between ritual and technology, and the changing role of the artist in digital culture. As a media archaeologist, he explores how media shape perception, memory, culture, politics, and artistic expression. His work often uses the figure of the digital shaman as an alter ego — a method for navigating the space between ancient ritual structures, contemporary media, and technological transformation. Research & Artistic Method Detlef Schlich’s artistic research is rooted in his essay Shamanism, Art and Digital Culture: Cause and Effect , which investigates the relationship between ritual, artistic transformation, media, and digital culture. Download here for free: Shamanism, Art and Digital Culture: Cause and Effect https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303749640_Shamanism_Art_and_Digital_Culture_Cause_and_Effect Building on this foundation, Schlich developed Multilayerism: A New Paradigm in Contemporary Art – A Manifesto , an artistic method and conceptual framework for understanding contemporary art through layers of media