Pulse (2025)
Digital color photograph
, 2025
Even if the pulse can't be heard, it's there.
A hidden essence, forgotten, waiting to be remembered.
Silence is not absence: it's pressure, confinement.
It's the mask that muffles what was pushed behind it.
Silence is the prelude to revelation.
PULSE I – Silence
Digital color photograph, 2025
It takes time.
Criticism, doubt, conviction.
To move beyond the mold.
To give voice to what was held inside
that idea, that essence that lingers,
breathing, waiting.
But when the moment comes,
it doesn’t ask for permission.
It leaks through.
It asserts itself.
PULSE II – Attacco
Digital color photograph, 2025
Bridge.
Transition.
Transformation.
Moving through uncertainty.
Sometimes hesitant, sometimes resolute.
Trying to emerge. To be seen.
To have a voice.
To take form.
To be.
The path is unclear,
but the essence is already leaking through.
There is no turning back.
PULSE III – Bridge
Digital color photograph, 2025
Emergence is not the end.
It is process.
Still fragile. Still undefined.
But now with form.
Now with voice.
Keixpa stands upright.
She faces the light. Interrupts it.
Not out of fear, but awareness.
She now understands the game.
And the players.
It is difficult.
But it has begun.
PULSE IV – Release
CONCEPTUAL note
Pulse is a visual score of emergence.
Through the recurring presence of a bound drum, the series explores what remains alive under pressure—what breathes even when silenced.
Each image is a gesture: from stillness to tension, from containment to defiance.
Keixpa appears gradually—not as a figure of resolution, but as a latent force, pulsing into visibility.
The drum is not played—it is worn, resisted, endured.
Pulse is not a sequence, but a rhythm. A rhythm of insistence.
Photography
by Mao Sanchez, under the creative direction of the artist.