Crescent

Crescent is a speculative investigation on the scientific and esoteric significance of silver element. The work is motivated by a fascination for the materiality of chemistry and minerals, and it aims to reveal this bivalent nature, akin the photographic process, somewhere between science and magic. Silver not only makes the creation of a photographic image possible, it is also an element fully-charged with symbolic meanings. Realising these potentialities, I decided to find places where the metal grows from the earth under the lunar influence and also to re-enact alchemical experiments in the synthetisation of silver from the effect of moonlight.