Installed for North Beach Music Festival at the historic North Beach Bandshell, aciiid traiiils brought a vibrant neon frequency into the palm grove overlooking Miami Beach. This outdoor light-sculpture installation extended my iridescent language into the landscape—transforming found wooden forms into prismatic, psychedelic pathways illuminated beneath a canopy of glowing violet palms.
- Title: aciiid traiiils
- Artist: Haiiileen
- Year: 2021
- Medium: UV-reactive pigments, hand-painted wood panels, specialty gloss resin, LED & UV lighting, environmental light-mapping
- Dimensions: Approx. 2 ft × 4 ft each (modular sculptural components)
- Edition: Unique installation
- Exhibition Site: North Beach Music Festival, North Beach Bandshell (Miami Beach, FL)
- Archival ID: HAI–ACIDTR–2021–NBMF
Project Description
aciiid traiiils is a site-specific outdoor light sculpture composed of iridescent, hand-painted wooden planks illuminated by UV and LED lighting during the North Beach Music Festival. Installed among a grove of towering coconut palms, the piece activated the landscape with neon gradients and synesthetic pigment trails that shimmered under violet, blue, and magenta festival lighting.
Each painted form carries layers of rainbow spectrum color, creating an illusion of motion—like the visible afterimage of sound, energy, or touch. As night fell, the installation became a glowing psychedelic pathway, mirroring the vibrational atmosphere of the festival.
The surrounding palms played an integral role in the piece, their trunks and fronds pulsing with chromatic light, transforming the grove into an immersive synesthetic environment.
Installation Components
- Iridescent UV-reactive painted wooden structures
- High-gloss resin finishes
- Integrated site lighting
- Palm grove landscape
- Ground-level neon reflections
Concept + Framework
Drawing from the visual language of psychedelic culture, rave aesthetics, and experiential light sculpture, aciiid traiiils explores color as a vibrating presence within natural space. The installation positions color as something alive—dynamic, shifting, and emotionally resonant.
This work interrogates:
- color as movement
- energy as visible residue
- how landscapes can be activated with artificial chroma
- how festival environments become sensory ecosystems
By integrating painted structures within the palm grove, the work merges constructed form and organic space, dissolving boundaries between sculpture, light, and nature.
Artist Reflection
“I wanted these pieces to feel like the residue of sound—like the trees themselves were leaving trails of color behind them. It’s a visual echo of vibration… a reminder that energy is always moving.”
— Haiiileen
Archival Significance
This installation represents a key development in my outdoor neon-ecology practice, marking an early large-scale exploration of UV-reactive surfaces and environmental synesthesia. It acts as a prototype for future immersive light environments.
Archival ID: HAI–ACIDTR–2021–NBMF
