Canirim: Botanical Resin Art
From her childhood seeing her mother and grandmother gardening, Lyvia has always been surrounded by plants.
It was her mother’s avocado tree that first instilled the importance of plants in connecting people, as her family would give the extra fruit away to neighbors.
“I started to see how the plants create those relationships between people not only in a practical way, but also the relationships built between people and plants.”
One of the things Lyvia loves about her process is seeing plants in all sorts of stages of life.
“It shows another anatomy, other forms which to me it’s pretty and poetic.”
When Lyvia first learned about putting plants in resin, her first thought was the fact that she could immortalize her mother’s plants, which was already special to her. Then she realized even deeper possibilities of her work.
“I met a girl in college…something she said: ‘You are producing fossils. The [botanists] will see this in the future and maybe will look at your piece with a plant that doesn’t even exist anymore.”
A film by Bettina Hanna.
