The deepest point of the Tiber where Death does Not Exist

CloneSaver Cards are designed for the long-term, room temperature storage of plasmid and BAC DNA clones from bacterial cultures, resuspended colonies or glycerol stocks. On this special kind of card the watercolor captures the brief moment of infiltration of the water, taken from the Tiber, sealed immediately after drying out. The work operates with the aesthetics of the invisible, because what we see is only the reaction of the water with the special paper, and not the water itself. But the result is a portrait of the river in the double sense - the materia prima, the water of the Tiber, and the accidental flow of the water at the moment of its contact with the paper. The watercolor becomes a scientific document, preserving the quality of the Tiber water with all its microbiological and genetic properties for the next 100 years.