 Rose documented her life and work with Flanagan, and also photographed other performance artists, including Genesis P-Orridge (for the book Modern Primitives), Ron Athey, and others.Rose and Flanagan's performance art, which explored BDSM, sexuality, death, and Flanagan's experience of living with cystic fibrosis, began in 1989 with the piece "Nailed", presented in conjunction with the release of the RE/Search publication "Modern Primitives".