光电幻化下的花朵和植物
发布: 2009-7-16 10:49 | 作者: cnnas | 来源: 大风车中英文门户网站社区
Robert Buelteman creates amazing images by electrifying flowers and plants
美国艺术家罗伯特-布尔特曼把花朵放在金属板上，然后给金属板通电，通过发射肉眼不可见的射线，花朵的影像传输到胶片上形成一幅幅美轮美奂的作品。
罗伯特的著作《生命的符号》里收录了他花费10年心思制作完成的80幅花的作品。制作这些作品全部是在完全黑暗的环境中完成的。
In an astonishing type of photography never used in the world of art before, pioneer Robert Buelteman sends 80,000 volts through flowery subjects and then literally paints photographs of the outcome
The process to capture these unique images is so complex it has taken the award winning 55-year-old 10 years...
...and a gruelling average of 60 hours-per-week, 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
As his subject lights up with the current, and emits radiation invisible to the naked eye, intuitive Buelteman captures 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 captivating 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 a canvas," he says
"The plant is the subject just like the painter's bowl of fruit or the person they are capturing..."
"...and the electrified board I place the plants on is the canvas. 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
"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 its 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