Sobreposições de existências: Biologias em atravessamentos

Abstract

This work brings a trajectory to life, an attempt to break stereotypes about indigenous peoples. It is an invitation to rethink your relationship with nature and its elements. Taking photography as a form of expression and a bridge between medicinal plants seen in an academic way and medicinal plants seen by native peoples, this study is the result of a fusion between the two knowledges. Plants for common use and easy access were chosen. These plants were photographed over their scientific exsiccates. The exsiccates were taken from the collection of the Herbarium Uberlandese (UFU) and overlaid by an indigenous graphic in the Terena ethnic group, which is part of my ethnic heritage, and then overlaid by the in natura plant. These exsiccates are accompanied by a brief explanation about the plant, an example of use and guidance on the benefits of using the plant in that way, which is different from the way we know it and use it in our daily lives.