M.P. Rose -Contemporary Digital and Mixed Media Art

Beat

Beat originates from photographic sessions conducted during the Los Angeles premiere of The Mythology of Self, a performance by choreographer Laurie Sefton at Loyola Marymount University. Positioned among the dancers on stage, the images were captured on a mobile device and later reconstructed in the studio through fragmentation and chromatic displacement.

Though each image is still, the work attempts to retain the pulse of the performance. Blurred bodies, repeated gestures, and shifting color planes register traces of movement, allowing rhythm and duration to remain visible within the photographic surface. The body appears less as a fixed subject than as something continually forming and dissolving within the image.