The plant is an instrument of healing and a form of knowledge. Every leaf, root, or mixture carries an ancestral heritage that aligns with the rhythms of the earth. Healing is intertwined with natural cycles, where the time of recovery is marked by the alternation between light and shadow, in a subtle continuity between body, environment, and cosmos, through the use of approximately three hundred botanical species.
Knowledge takes shape in the repeated gestures of gathering, preparing and caring. The photographs follow these connections between women and plants, where memory is held in practice and renewed through use.
Today, this equilibrium appears fractured. The forests are weakening, the rhythms of modernity are redesigning trajectories, and the transmission between mothers and daughters is thinning, risking to remain without a voice. This is an urgency recognised also by the Vietnamese scientific community, which attempts to codify this knowledge before the botanical memory vanishes.
Through photographic investigation and manual intervention, the project documents what remains of these practices, of the oral knowledge and its sacred bonds with the environment, outlining the tension between the permanence of an archaic knowledge and the fragility of a memory that risks becoming a residue without a voice.
What remains is a living relationship: between one generation and the next, between the body and the forest, and between the need to preserve and the possibility of change.
