Rainbow Haze

Rainbow Haze is a series of site-specific video works and digital altar installations that explore color as frequency within liminal space where migration, identity, and spirit converge.

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The project is rooted in the understanding that migration is not only geographic, but psychic and spiritual. It produces fragmentation: of language, lineage, body, and belonging. Rainbow Haze engages the in-between those thresholds where identities are neither fixed nor fully dissolved as sites of creative potency and integration.

Each work centers a single color within a nine-color spectrum, translating that frequency into moving image, gesture, and environment. These works function as digital altars: spaces where the body, light, and landscape become vessels for transformation.

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Drawing from multiple cosmologies, the project places distinct traditions into resonant dialogue. The energetic mapping of color in the chakra system, the transformational force of Oya in Afro-Cuban practice, and the Andean understanding of the rainbow (k’uychi) as a bridge between worlds all point to color as a living, relational force.

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Historically, these systems emerge from different geographies shaped by colonization, displacement, and survival. Their convergence within Rainbow Haze reflects diasporic reality where fragmented cultural knowledge is carried, reassembled, and reimagined across borders.

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The rainbow also operates as a central symbol within queer communities, representing multiplicity, fluidity, and the refusal of fixed identity. Within this context, Rainbow Haze positions queerness not only as identity, but as a cosmological orientation an openness to transformation, hybridity, and becoming.

 

Each site-specific work activates liminal environmentsthresholds between urban and natural, private and public, physical and digital. These spaces mirror the migrant experience: unstable, generative, and rich with possibility.

As an ongoing series, Rainbow Haze currently includes works in green, yellow, magenta, and blue (in development), with the intention to complete the full spectrum. The process itself becomes a ritual of integration assembling a fragmented rainbow across time, space, and body.

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Rainbow Haze asks: How do we live, create, and transform within the in-between?