2025 MONA DIE! DIE! DIE!

Dimensions: 6m
Medium: wooden structure

Description

Mona DIE! DIE! DIE! is rolling into Burning Man 2025, bringing wonder, whimsy and a pinch of chaos! This marks the third magical chapter in the Mona saga, after 2023’s beloved pink Mona Bunny and 2024’s dreamy Mona Mushroom. Stepping onto the wobbly tightrope between destiny and random chance, the 20 ft sculpture of a dice explores the big, mysterious question: what does tomorrow hold?

The story unfolds in the world of a Mona, a curious 6-year-old girl with big feelings and even bigger questions. Swept up by the gust of endless possibilities, Mona finds herself being swirled around in a foggy cloud of grown-up worries and uncertainty. The Mona Die invites her into making peace with the unknowable—turning anxiety into art, and pressure into play shared with friends.

Mona DIE! DIE! DIE! is a meditation on death and simultaneously a celebration of life’s sweet impermanence. Through the roll of her giant dice, Mona shows us how today’s tiny choices ripple into tomorrow’s great unknown… but also reminds us that, much like the clatter of a dice roll, life is full of randomness and surprise. No one—not even Mona—can predict the future. Thus, instead of resisting the chaos, Mona Die invites us to laugh at it, dance with it, and let it carry us somewhere unexpected.

The adventure culminates in the Mona Funeral March, where enchanting projector lights transform the giant die into Mona’s fantastical visions. As the grand finale, the giant wooden die will be ceremoniously cast and burned simultaneously, dramatically rolling to determine the future as it yields to its flames—symbolizing our collective surrender to uncertainty and life’s impermanence.

We hope you will join us on this year’s chapter of Mona’s journey and that Mona DIE! DIE! DIE! brings more warmth, more questions, and a lot more love into your hearts.

During the 2025 Burning Man, the MONA art team encountered the most severe sandstorm in a decade, which damaged their installation Mona Die! Die! Die! during construction. Faced with the disaster, the team did not give up. Instead, they quickly adapted and began re‑creating with the damaged materials.

They reassembled the scattered components into a brand‑new interactive pyramid structure, attracting participants to climb and explore. This transformation not only gave the work a new form and interactive experience but also profoundly demonstrated the wisdom of resilience in adversity—turning limitations into creativity.

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