Crescent is a speculative investigation on the scientific and esoteric significance of silver element.
Motivated by a fascination for the materiality of chemistry and minerals, this work aims to reveal this bivalent nature, akin the photographic process, somewhere between science and magic.
The stories that are going to be developped fascinated me after years of experimenting in the darkroom with silver-salts. They motivated me to make research on the properties and significance of this specific element connected to the medium I use.
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.
