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Electrified flowers make astonishing artworks

#10680376 - 07/15/09 08:40 AM (17 years, 2 months ago)

Electrified flowers make astonishing artworks
July 15, 2009 - telegraph.co.uk

Flowers were electrified with 80,000 volts of power to produce dazzling images of the natural world

Robert Buelteman photographs the plant life while sending electricity through them.

The result shows roses, petunias, and even cannabis in astonishing detail.

It has taken the award-winning 55-year-old 10 years to produce just 80 photos.

Working in complete darkness, he begins by placing his chosen plant onto a metal board which he then passes the electrical surge through. He can even pinpoint areas where he wants to focus the charge using a wand and a simple car battery.

As his subject lights up with the current, and emits radiation invisible to the naked eye, intuitive Buelteman captured the moments by passing a fibre optic cable back-and-forth over the plant.

The cable emits a beam of white light that is just the size of a human hair and whatever the miniscule torch-beam touches, transfers the image onto film.

The blue haze that surrounds every leaf, petal and stalk is actually gases ionising around them as the plant is electronically shocked.

To explain the baffling process, Buelteman, from Montara, California, USA, uses a trusted analogy.

"You just have to imagine it like a painter creating a picture on canvass," he said. "The plant is the subject just like the painter's bowl of fruit or the person they are capturing. The electrified board I place the plants on is the canvass. The fibre optic cable emitting the light-beam is my paintbrush.

"Another way to try and understand it is like a normal photograph on a normal camera, except I am manually controlling the exposure by hand. In the same way the image I capture is simply burned onto film."

To give the pictures an added dazzling effect, Buelteman's aluminium canvass actually floats in liquid silicone. And to make sure he doesn't get killed in the process, he erects a protective frame of wood around his easel.

But despite these being the first pictures of their kind in his profession, Buelteman says he has in fact invented nothing and uses a combination of age-old techniques developed decades ago.

Semyon Kirlian - developer of Kirlian photography - accidentally found in 1939 that it was possible to photograph electrical discharges at the edges of objects if that were being shocked on an electrified plate.

"When people see my work I want them to feel an awakening. The world is an amazing place and evolution has created some breathtaking things for us to look at. For me, art is about looking at the world and all it's wonder in a new way, seeing something differently."

Buelteman has written about the project and the techniques he uses in his book Signs of Life.

His works are being bought for a phenomenal five figures by art collectors.

Related websites:
The Buelteman Studio
Signs of Life

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Re: Electrified flowers make astonishing artworks

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#10680558 - 07/15/09 09:16 AM (17 years, 2 months ago)

Wow! This guy really takes some nice photos. I wonder how the guy in 1939 "accidently" found out how to do it, 80 000 volts :what2:

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