Inventory' is a selection of drawings by Lindsay Sekulowicz which document her work with the Natural History Museum of Florence.

For the past two years Sekulowicz has accompanied biologists from the Museum on entomological expeditions, to the Northern Hulu Perak and Kelantan regions of the Malaysian jungle in 2008 and to the Otonga Forest Reserve and the Amazon in Ecuador in 2009.

Her practice is narrative, and references collections, botanical studies, and scientific enquiry that expand realms of knowledge and aspects of human endeavour.

The work often culminates in the physical or metaphorical destruction of an object or an impossibility of completion. Her drawings focus on the minute and the gigantic, sometimes materialising as recreations of imagined spaces, and ultimately, the return to myth.

‘The water is boiled and instant coffee divided between metal cups. I collect the skin of the viper I washed last night and lay it to dry in the sun where the sunlight first hits, next to the chameleon.

The entomologists gather around a map of the Amazon, discussing our route. Before them: biscuits, sugar, fruit, jars of beetles, water bottles full of stick insects, a box of insect larvae in moss, paper envelopes with butterflies and dragonflies inside, and a colossal wasp.

Elicio calls me, pointing among the red flowers of a tree, he says, “Here are the eggs of a monkey”.

For further information about Lindsay's work please vist her website
www.lindsaysekulowicz.com