It is known that new is well forgotten old. Hardly anyone remembers that now fashionable "new" art, light photography (or light painting) has been opened about a hundred years ago. 1914: putting the camera at slower shutter speed and supplying lanterns workaholic, scientists identified the optimal trajectory in the workspace. In 1935, Man Ray, a kind of Amerigo Vespucci, once again "discovered America" for his series of Space Writings. Famous as light paintings by Pablo Picasso. That is, the roots of photography are experiments, the vanguard, psihonavtika.

Light painting — chiaroscuro, literally, dance of darkness and light. Prerequisite: darkness, in which the artist using a variety of instruments (from a flashlight to LED spotlights) introduces the light. The ideal situation: the night. When "All are sleeping, but not me." Or total isolation. Light is also a photo reportage of the internal space, ECG travels to the edge of the night, her colored dotted lines.

Sufi mystics believed that a sound, once heard, it sounds forever. Every place "sounds" at a frequency audible only to the initiated. Imagine that every movement leaves a trace - dress the special glasses, and the world will turn into a psychedelic painting: colored fibers, ornate thread of Ariadne, following which we can emerge from the labyrinth of the night. Or vice versa - to sneak into his very heart.

Exhibition of light painting photography Michail Churkin is these same glasses: a such a zero-trip through the eyes of the artist's imagination placebo.