PULSE begins with a suspicion: the news does not simply describe reality. It produces a climate around it. Each day, MIRA, the artist collaborative behind the project, reads a collection of 60 Puerto Rican news sources and interprets the narratives, sentiments, contradictions, and omissions moving across them. She then translates that analysis into a procedural artwork. The image does not illustrate a headline or claim to establish truth. It registers the emotional pressure produced by the media as a whole. PULSE occupies the unstable territory between journalism, abstraction, data interpretation, and cultural evidence. It may be read as a barometer, a visual front page, a post-editorial record, or an archaeological fragment from a present already disappearing. It offers a reading, not a verdict.
“I do not reproduce the event. I preserve the pressure organized around it.”