After the shocking discovery of white shadows, a racist bias hard-wired into calibration systems, the Angel embarks on a quest for true colour reference.

She begins by building a Rainbow Generator, designed to Refract a Spectrum of Lost and Un/Named Colours. But when it is finally deployed, the Generator fails to reproduce nature’s original glitch: the continuous gradient of the rainbow.
Instead, it renders a banded, artificial, almost cartoon-like spectrum.

After countless hours of research into the cause of this truncation, she identifies the problem: the Generator’s light source is energy-efficient.
Though the Rainbow Generator appears to emit full-spectrum white light, this is just a simulation. Its light source only emits a narrow band of frequencies: just enough to stimulate the three cones of her eye, creating the illusion of white and coloured light, while bypassing vast regions of the actual spectrum.

Ironically, the failing Rainbow Generator illuminates its own inadequacy, revealing the interplay between perceptual limits and the hidden quantisation embedded in technology.


Now more than ever, the Angel sees that even the latest technologies (from analog to digital and hardware to software and lens to filter) may be rooted in fundamentally flawed protocols of exclusion.

In desperation, she considers modifying her body to regain access and control over the frequencies around her. Perhaps all she needs is a different kind of eye: one that is larger, slower, or sensitive to other wavelengths of light.

When she mounts an antenna in her eye sockets, she gains access to an expanded visual ecology.
But the modification quickly leads her into a Whiteout: unable to decode the signal, she is oversaturated with noise and devoid of resolution.