Electrifying(this is not mine) Hiroshi Sugimoto

This is not mine, this is Hiroshi Sugimoto and his lightning field photography on at the dean gallery as part of Edinburgh International Festival. Irritated by static distortions corrupting his work he decided to explore the effect of his nemesis on photographic plates. Fair enough. But then it starts to get a bit Yahoo Serious. Apparently he would ramp up a van der graaf generator till his arm hairs tingled then let rip, discharging it onto plates in his dark room. The effects seem to vary wildly. This one resembles flowers, another a tributary of lightning rivers, another sub atomic comets and insect fur fireworks. Also in this exhibition are images he has developed produced from the very first sunlit sensitive plates pioneered by William Henry Fox Talbot from 1845. The images are simple but a little disarming. A slice of time emerging from the deep freeze. He's also taken a single shot of a whole 2 hour movie, re-imagined portraits of the great and good as wax models and contemplated the nature of being by framing just air and sea.

Would like to say I hung about in a beret contemplating for longer the shift in quantum photon time to 6 generations in human years, but I didn't. The guard was breathing down my neck and chased me out. I prefer empty galleries so will be trying to catch a few more of the fest art thingys now the crowds have left... sigh.....