‘Treatment’ focuses on the transformative affect of medicine on the body. In this series, I treat film as if it is itself an open wound, a delicate body in need of care and subject film to infrared heat therapy, antibiotics, moxibustion, and pain medication. Contemporary modes of healing are transferred in this process from my body to the photographic ground. The work involves no light or camera, but rather alchemy and the physical endurance of the film/body. The images reference the physical and emotional moment of transformation present in all bodies subject to treatment within modern medicine.
