Photographic Alchemy

FEGG MOU

The camera as crucible.

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The Four Chambers

Anima Mundi

The world-soul — where the four meet
The complete portfolio, drawn across fire, water, earth, and air. Liquid I.
Portfolio · 6 Plates
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Ignis, No. 07 — Combustion, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Ignis, No. 07 — Combustion
Ignis, No. 02 — Residue, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Ignis, No. 02 — Residue
Aqua, No. 02 — Threshold, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Aqua, No. 02 — Threshold
Aqua, No. 09 — Drift, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Aqua, No. 09 — Drift
Aer, No. 02 — Trace Portrait, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Aer, No. 02 — Trace Portrait
Aer, No. 04 — Vapor Study, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Aer, No. 04 — Vapor Study
Ignis, No. 09 — What the Flame Took, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate IX
Ignis, No. 09 — What the Flame Took
Ignis, No. 07 — Combustion, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate VII
Ignis, No. 07 — Combustion
Ignis, No. 01 — Calcination Study, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate I
Ignis, No. 01 — Calcination Study
Ignis, No. 06 — First Reduction, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate VI
Ignis, No. 06 — First Reduction
Aqua, No. 02 — Threshold, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XII
Aqua, No. 02 — Threshold
Aqua, No. 01 — Dissolution, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XI
Aqua, No. 01 — Dissolution
Aqua, No. 07 — Surface Tension, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XVII
Aqua, No. 07 — Surface Tension
Aqua, No. 03 — Without Edge, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XIII
Aqua, No. 03 — Without Edge
Terra, No. 05 — Rust Portrait, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XXV
Terra, No. 05 — Rust Portrait
Terra, No. 04 — Bone Study, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XXIV
Terra, No. 04 — Bone Study
Terra, No. 09 — Petrified, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XXIX
Terra, No. 09 — Petrified
Terra, No. 01 — Coagulation, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XXI
Terra, No. 01 — Coagulation
Aer, No. 01 — Sublimation, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XXXI
Aer, No. 01 — Sublimation
Aer, No. 03 — Last Breath, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XXXIII
Aer, No. 03 — Last Breath
Aer, No. 06 — Without Body, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XXXVI
Aer, No. 06 — Without Body
Aer, No. 08 — Suspended, archival pigment print by Fegg Mou
Plate XXXVIII
Aer, No. 08 — Suspended
Diana Lucci (Fegg Mou), multidisciplinary artist, Washington D.C. — self-portrait with camera
The artist, in process
Biography

Fegg Mou

I am Fegg Mou, the working name of Diana Lucci, a multidisciplinary artist living in Washington, D.C. I work from one conviction: All Is One. Division is a human construct, taught to us and mistaken for the world. My work is a search, a process of dissolving those constructs, and the principles of alchemy and Hermetics are its foundation. I create with mediums, among them photography, sculpture and material transformation, and I take up whichever the process asks for next. Each medium is a tool and each stage offers an additional truth. When alchemy, Hermetics and philosophy collide, something new is formed, the Rebis, the birth of a new truth. Gold is made the same way: matter dissolved, purified and bound again, pass after pass, until a new substance holds.

I do not photograph life. I photograph the vision of an image and life colliding into an alchemic reaction, and in that, bare a witness of process taking a form. To name a thing is to collapse it, to choose one shape and kill every other shape it might have been. The quest is to find what the I truly is once everything used to define who we are is removed: age, occupation, social status, name, origins, beliefs. This is my concept of Liquid I. A photograph does not have to declare what I is, but it can offer the threshold and let the viewer stand in it. I am the Labyrinth offering the Labyrinth. For those who dare to question.

Press kit and full CV available on request — inquire@dianalucci.com.
Statement

Every work begins as a photograph, and the vision decides what happens next. Some images are finished as prints. Others go further: an airbrush alters them, paint deepens them, and chemicals act as the catalyst that changes what the image becomes. I experiment with different pigments, solvents and varnishes to achieve the vision I have for the piece.

The four series follow the four operations of alchemy, and each operation is a way of treating the image. Ignis calcines it, Aqua dissolves it, Terra coagulates it, Aer sublimates it.

Solve et coagula, dissolve and bind together again, is the sequence the work follows from the first photograph to the finished print.

Selected Showings

Exhibitions

2026
Published by DOCU MagazineEditorial feature
DOCU Magazine
2026
Rome International Art Fair — 18th EditionPresented by ITSLIQUID
Rome, Italy
Upcoming

Forthcoming Shows

2026
New York, I Love YouGroup exhibition · September 30 – October 6, 2026 · Agora Gallery, Chelsea · Presented by AGI Fine Art
New York, NY
Collecting the Work Inquire

Each print exists in a small, hand-numbered edition, processed and signed personally. Nothing here is reproduced on demand.

Edition & Format

Archival pigment prints, made to order in the paper selected at time of purchase, from a hand-numbered edition of 7 unless noted. One format only: 42 × 89cm. Museum-quality cotton rag — Hahnemühle Photo Rag, Canson Infinity Platine Fibre Rag, or Ilford Galerie Prestige — matched to the tonal character of the plate. Framing is available on request, in oak or blackened ash.

Inquiries

Each series is priced individually. Each inquiry is reviewed individually. Confirmed requests receive edition number and price directly. Not every inquiry results in a sale.

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