“But merian, so often able to slide by the rules somehow, held on to her specialised tools: her book of notes, her paints, her expensive vellum – carta non nata, skin from unborn lambs, that held the color like nothing else. She brought her mixing materials and pigments.”

“But merian, so often able to slide by the rules somehow, held on to her specialised tools: her book of notes, her paints, her expensive vellum – carta non nata, skin from unborn lambs, that held the color like nothing else. She brought her mixing materials and pigments.”

— Kim Todd