Tectum Argenti2022

A moving meditation on therapeutic healing through reconnecting with the self in nature: shot, home-processed and hand-edited on black-and-white 16mm film. "Tectum argenti" is the alchemists' name for bismuth (Bi in the periodic table), meaning, 'silver being made'. Connecting the latent image in photography to coming out as bi+ in mid-life, the film evokes a difficult, at times euphoric journey of healing from the past. Loosely structured into four movements referencing the basic alchemical elements, internal and external landscapes intertwine in an assemblage of fractured but interconnected poetic gestures, multiple exposures, textural images, and abstract marks upon the film’s surface.