Mutable air: internal contradictions, tenderness, creative solutions.

The relief of facing something is so much greater than the temporary balm of running away.

Fixed Earth: containers, support, grounding

Some people see the container as a capacious space to experiment in, and some people feel it is a barrier that needs to be broken down.

Cardinal fire: prismatic storytelling, intensity, wholeness

The film is formally beautiful. Long, slow takes. The drama of light through a circular window. The harrowing beauty of autumn leaves against a whitewashed exterior. Mortality is conjured in the changes of seasons, and the gradations of light.

Cardinal fire: immediacy, fire, creativity.

Unlike the click of a lighter, a match creates a suspended moment in time. The weight in the hand, the sound of the strike, the little fire glowing, and the curl of extinguished smoke.