To enter this cabinet is to put on fabulous lenses, turning our gaze into that of a child in awe. This is the prism through which the myriad wonders of the Jardin des Plantes and the Museum of Natural History shimmer. Through these teeming greenhouses and vast galleries brimming with unheard-of mysteries, everything beckons. From Lady's Slippers to the black orchids whose stems hum along with metallic shimmering beetles. Where every stone seems to hold an ancient magic, every shell a treasure. You can brush timidly against the fascinating corals, living and colourful dens inhabited by strange organisms. We wander, mouth agape, to the origins of life in all its forms, linked and infused by the same turmoil they give us.
