Coating with paraffin the floor of the Matarazzo Industries, in a circle of approximately 17 feet wide, Flávia Ribeiro is in a certain way creating an archaeological site. The reference are the classifying procedures of the classic scientism: "reliquiae en capsela" (encapsulated vestiges), referring to the conservation in vitro of natural species that characterized knowledge in this period.

This film encrusted in the floor involves vestiges (plants, debris) and inscriptions left in the place. A material that doesn't blend, paraffin is used to embalm and to preserve things. A thin veil that preserves the marks of passage. In the tank beside, Flávia Ribeiro covered water with gold leaves, creating a skin capable of incorporating and signaling the marks left by exposition to the weather. Just as the paraffin, a smooth surface contrasting with the harshness of the debris. Gold refers to light, as paraffin is translucent, tensioning with the opacity of the ruins. As if these places, so preserved, might revive some day, as if this alchemy might lead to the transformation of all things.