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In many of her projects, Renata De Bonis (São Paulo, 1984) evokes places she has visited on trips. Attentive to what is in the natural and remote environments, she seeks to restore or translate something of its unique presence in sound installations, drawings and collections of objects. The Annotations series from Caspar David Friedrich is the first materialization of a research into the sublime landscapes consecrated by this German romantic painter of the first half of the nineteenth century. De Bonis, who always admired him, traveled to Europe to map, locate and visit several of the scenarios in which he had made his paintings. Instead of focusing on the timeless immensity of landscapes, she captured the sounds of the environments, the part that existed only as projected imagination on the framed visual. The sound tracks recorded in Friedrich's locations, then, became the substrate for this synesthetic sound installation.