Newspapers, Series 
Prints on paper with variable dimensions

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In the second basement of the herbarium of the Botanical Garden of Madrid is located the storage S59, a warehouse from the historical herbarium that gathers botanical material mostly coming from the eighteenth and nineteenth century mainly from the former colonies, that for several causes cannot be cataloged, assembled as discards, this vegetal matter constitutes a blind spot within the official archive.

An intervention on newspapers used by collectors of botanical species to dry the plant materials, which are discarded once the species are classified in the herbarium. When the plant material remains for a long time trapped in the paper, the volume of the plants is transferred to the memory of the paper fiber, overlapping also with the graphic and narrative content of the newspapers themselves. The series makes a catalog of paths and traces volumes created by the plants on the newspapers, and intervenes with fluorescent pigment, a technique derived from fluorescence imaging techniques to visualize the biological processes that occur on a living organism. This series consists in four photographic prints in color, with a maximum size of 54 x 78 cm.