kevin o'farrell

bobbie dances is a book of echoes — of movement, of light, of time unraveling frame by frame. Built from single moments of an old black-and-white Super 8 film, these images capture a young woman lost in an ecstatic dance. The result is a ghostly, flickering world where past and present dissolve into one another, where motion lingers just beyond reach.

Bobbie moves in fragments, her form distorted by light and shadow, her presence at once raw and spectral. The grainy textures and shifting focus blur the boundary between film and dream, creating an uncanny sense of something both remembered and forgotten. She is caught in the rhythm of an unseen song, her gestures frozen yet alive, an apparition dancing through time.

Without words, bobbie dances invites the viewer to witness, to interpret, to feel. It is not just a collection of images — it is a visual séance, a meditation on memory and impermanence, a dance that never truly ends.