Enter Sacred Futurities
The future does not emerge in isolation.
It gathers from what precedes it—memory, rupture, migration, land, language—carrying forward what has been shaped through encounter. Time, in this framework, is not linear. It folds. It returns. It places the past in active dialogue with what is still unfolding. Futurities are not distant projections but ongoing negotiations between what has been and what is becoming.
Sacred Futurities begins from this premise.
This interface reflects that temporal logic. Rather than arranging the essays in a fixed sequence, it approaches them as a relational field. The works are encountered through shared modes—voice, body, material, collective, and touch—allowing fragments to move across and between texts. Research here is not presented as a progression from one argument to the next, but as a constellation of ideas in dialogue with one another.
The structure is intentional. It does not dissolve form, but reorients it so that resonance, tension, and return become visible across difference. In doing so, it affirms that art can render visible what is hidden, speak truth through excess, and carve space for resistance within the architectures that seek to contain us.
Readers are invited to move through excerpts, images, and connections that surface across the essays, tracing convergence, divergence, and recurrence. Each highlighted word functions as a threshold, opening outward into the full texts, which remain central to the experience.
What unfolds is not a path to follow, but a structure to inhabit, a relation to encounter.
Cite as: Lineadeluz, “Enter Sacred Futurities,” in X as Intersection: Writing on Latinx Art, June 1, 2026, accessed [DATE], https://uslaf.org/essay/enter-sacred-futurities/.
Lineadeluz is a Mexican American media-expansive artist, educator, and researcher exploring digital embodiment, ritual, and technologies of the self through AI, video, performance, and mixed media. They are the founder of The Selfie Institute for Selfie Studies (SISS), an independent artist-led platform researching how digital platforms shape identity, visibility, memory, and self-exploration online. Their work has been presented at The Wrong Biennale, Zona Maco, NFTNYC, and The Feminist Art Museum, and featured through The Latinx Project at NYU and The International Journal of Information, Diversity & Inclusion.
