“They are photographs made without a camera, purely with light...they evoke all sorts of associations, like skin, or astronomy, or chemicals dissolving, and its all done by the brain. It's what your 'brain association tool' creates”
(Wolfgang Tillmans cited in Dominic Eichler, ‘Thinking Pictures’, in: Wolfgang Tillmans and Karl Kolbitz, Eds., Wolfgang Tillmans Abstract Pictures, Ostfildern 2011, pp. 9-10).