Global Rainbow
2 – 5 April
7.30pm – Midnight
Global Rainbow is a large-scale public art light installation created by Yvette Mattern.
The artwork beams seven rays of laser light representing the color spectrum of a natural rainbow: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
The 120+ W power laser light projection beaming in parallel horizontal lines creates a natural perspective horizon arc simulating a natural rainbow arc and has a trajectory or viewing spectrum of up to 60 KM depending on atmospheric conditions.
The presentation is poetic, magical and powerful. It encompasses the skyline and its viewing perspective is as ephemeral as viewing a natural rainbow.
Theoretically and symbolically its presentation encompasses geographical and social diversity in its reach throughout distinct points across the globe.
The Global Rainbow was inspired with the sighting of a spectacular rainbow on January 1, 2007:
“I witnessed the most strikingly dramatic and spectacular rainbow crashing through what seemed like apocalyptic clouds hovering over Walden Pond, Massachusetts on the first day of 2007.
I was deeply moved and inspired to replicate this vision artistically. I was struck by the symbolic significance of the placement of the rainbow over Walden Pond and thought about its relationship to someone like Henry David Thoreau.”
Did you see the rainbow over Barking & Dagenham?
We'd love to see your photos. Please use the hashtag #GlowFestival21 on Social Media.
Global Rainbow was presented by Creative Barking and Dagenham as part of Global Streets, a national project funded through Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants and managed by FESTIVAL.ORG.
Photographs at top: ER Productions, Alastair Muir, Jacob R Schwar and Richard Johnson