In the Aesthetic Capacity series (2016-2022), Jeremy Shaw employs the obscure form of Kirlian photography to record experiments using himself as the basis for testing the visual effects of music. Discovered in 1939 by Russian inventor Semyon Kirlian (1898-1978), and still used in fringe science and mystical practices, Kirlian photography is a contact-based darkroom process used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges that naturally occur around objects – considered by some to be their aura. Shaw listens to specific music on headphones and at a certain point in each song places his finger on Polaroid land-film while charging it with a bolt of electricity. The process captures both his fingerprint and the unseen electrical coronal discharge that exists around it, serving as a visual record of each song’s mediation through his body and its affect, if any, on his aura.