Laura Segalà and Cassandre Tornay: A Bag, A Bit of Bark, A Leaf

A Bag, A Bit of Bark, A Leaf traces the forgotten paths of the Trementinaires, women healers who traversed the Catalan Pyrenees carrying medicinal plants and ancestral knowledge. Through walking as research methodology, this project documents oral histories and environmental fragments gathered in the Vansa i Tuixent valley.
The publication unfolds as a bilingual map (Catalan/English). Its innovative folding system allows each language to exist independently while sharing the same physical space.
This project explores themes of care, knowledge transmission, and disappearing trades, proposing that containers, whether physical or conceptual, are humanity’s first cultural tools for carrying wisdom and affection forward. Named after Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay on gathering rather than hunting as culture’s foundation.