Between the desire for eternity and the awareness of the transitory, this barren herbarium is founded — a poetic research by the visual artist Ana Lucia Mariz. Going back to the beginnings of the invention of the medium, she is inspired by the photogenic drawings of William Henry Fox Talbot and by the cyanotype experiments of the botanist Anna Atkins, to bring to light, without the use of a camera, a story of minutiae and resistance, arising from the accelerated and disorderly process of mutation in São Paulo.