 It is a manuscript or piece of writing material on which letter writing has been superimposed or effaced by earlier writing, something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. Hello, my name is Thelma. I'm a researcher from the People and Parliaments Project and a visual artist currently based in London but I'm from Sao Paulo and I developed this piece called Palimpsest for the Living Democracy exhibition. Well, it's about lawmaking and how we can just by looking at the bill itself, the way it was released to the public, understand all the process that happens behind what we actually can see. So the bill that is represented in Palimpsest, it discussed a renovation project that would take place in a specific part of the city of Sao Paulo. This was a bill that took three years to be approved. It ended up conforming more than 300 reports with everything that went through it like public hearings, transcriptions so we can see real estate and slum dwellers debating here. We can also see decisions that were made in the committees, the debate between the executive and the legislative branch. So as it progresses we have different voices that are heard, conflicts emerge and so layers are being added to it. It took a long time to actually build it. The whole process of building Palimpsest became a Palimpsest itself actually.