Herbarium - 1967 - PhMuseum

Herbarium — 1967 A photographic study of a family herbarium created in 1967. Pressed plants, fragile paper and handwritten notes become traces of time, where scientific classification and personal memory meet on the quiet surface of the page.

Herbarium — 1967

Herbarium — 1967 is a photographic exploration of a botanical archive assembled in 1967 for a university botany examination. Pressed plants, mounted on aging sheets and accompanied by handwritten annotations, form a small system of classification where scientific observation intersects with personal memory.

The photographs shift the focus from the botanical specimen to the material condition of the archive itself: fragile papers, protective tissues, subtle discolorations and the quiet alterations produced by time.

Within this suspended space between taxonomy and memory, each plant becomes both a scientific document and a trace of a human gesture — the act of collecting, naming and preserving.

Through a restrained and frontal visual approach, Herbarium reflects on the fragile boundary between knowledge and remembrance, observing the herbarium not simply as a scientific tool but as a silent repository of time.

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