PICTURES OF HEALTH

The Difference Between Negative and Positive Thought (Negative), 2000, Gas Discharge Visualization camera image outputted as a digital pigment print, In collaboration with Jodi Serota

The two photographs comprising The Difference Between Negative and Positive Thought record the aura emitted through a person's fingertips, using a Gas Discharge Visualization camera. From these images, says Burson, the health of the entire body can be mapped in a computer. Made with the help of Russian scientist Konstantin Korotkov, these aural images depict the fingertips of healers who attained a range of emotional states in order to generate a diversity of auras.