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Maya Villanueva, watercolour, Baguio

Help carry the studio on Session Road.

Maya paints the Baguio fog before it burns off, every morning, for three years now. The studio rent is ₱24,000 a month. Thirty-one people are already under the house. Lend a hand and watch it move.

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₱9,850 of ₱24,000 this month 31 pairs of hands

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Pick an amount. The line underneath tells you what it buys for Maya this month, not a percentage. Monthly hands stay under the house; one-time hands lift it once.

Amount

₱150 buys one sheet of cold-press paper

How often

0/140

Demo: nothing is charged and nothing leaves this tab. Your hands go under the house, your card goes on the wall, both vanish when you close the page.

The posts along the road.

Each one is something Maya does when the house reaches it. The house has passed the first.

  1. ₱3,600

    The scanner

    A flatbed that reads the paper grain, so the prints stop looking like photos of paintings.

    Passed

  2. ₱9,600

    One studio day a week

    Thursdays stop being client work. Thursdays become the fog series.

    Passed

  3. ₱16,800

    The Session Road zine

    Twelve paintings, risograph, mailed to every monthly supporter.

    Ahead

  4. ₱24,000

    The rent, covered

    The studio on Session Road pays for itself. Everything after this is the work.

    Ahead

The hands so far.

Newest at the top. These supporters are fictional; yours will be real for as long as the tab is open.

  • Ria, Davao ₱150 / month

    For the Baguio fog series. Keep going.

  • Anonymous ₱50 once

    Coffee on me.

  • Marco D. ₱500 / month

    My office has your strawberry-field print. Clients ask.

  • Tita Bebs ₱300 once

    Proud of you, anak.

  • jpbr ₱150 / month

    The process videos taught me more than my class did.

  • Lena from Manila ₱1,000 once

    Put this toward the scanner.

For the person holding the brush.

Ambag takes five percent and the payment rail takes its own. Both are printed on every creator's public page, like this one, so supporters know where the money goes before they give it. Type what you want to keep each month and read the receipt.

Payouts land weekly to a Philippine bank or e-wallet. No minimum to start, no minimum to withdraw, and the page is yours the day you sign up.

Fee receipt

You keep
₱24,000
Ambag, 5%
₱1,263
Payment rail, about 3.5%
₱884
Supporters give, in total
₱26,147
At ₱150 a month, that is
175 pairs of hands

Rail fee shown as an estimate; the real rate depends on the wallet or card used.

A house moves when enough people decide it should.

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