Ghost Seed, Slides 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.

Reproduction of a set of photographic slides from the personal archive of an ethnobotanist at the Botanical Garden of Madrid. The archives document a botanical expedition to Equatorial Guinea in 1989. These four images have been printed on color photographic paper and resized to 60x60 cm.