The set of photographs by Militão, grouped around the panorama of São Paulo, invites the viewer to a stroll through the 1862 city's empty, muddy streets with its buildings made of taipa (clay).

In the installation at the Pinacoteca, the enlargement of the images reinforced the dramatic perspective of Militão's street scenes in which the ground seems to overflow into the spectator's space, dragging us into his images.