Aegean Sea, Pilion II

"Against modernism's cult of the instantaneous, Sugimoto's work asserts the continuing presence of forms of attention that are closer to the body's interior, and are not more akin to sleep or unconsciousness than to the vigilant rapidity of the retina or the movie screen. Sugimoto's strategy is basically to block 'superficial' consciousness in order to locate and give definition to certain permanences of consiousness which high-velocity systems consistently eclipse or overlook." (N. Bryson, 'Hiroshi Sugimoto's Metabolic Photography', Parkett, no.46, 1996, p.121).