Afterimage, 2020
Single-channel video
19 minutes 59 seconds
3:5, color, sound

Waikīkī, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, Moananuiākea

Friday Night Fireworks—Every Friday night the sky lights up with a stunning fireworks display off Waikiki Beach at 7:45 pm. Find the perfect spot to view the fireworks on the beach or at Tropics Bar & Grill or Hau Tree Cantina. If you are staying in an Ocean Front room in Rainbow Tower or The Ali'i you can also watch the show from your balcony. - Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort
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In Hawaiʻi as elsewhere, statehood operates as a knowledge-making spectacle that abates U.S occupation and settler colonialism by giving the illusion of settler state permanence, yet requires constant recalibration to shore up ongoing processes of dispossession. - Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Unsustainable Empire Alternative Histories of Hawaiʻi Statehood