February

"Our world flits between contingency and convergence, providing the illusion of structure and order, until one tiny adjustment changes everything. (...) Nature makes a random mistake, or a contingent deviation, and, poof, you've got a new kind of beetle." Brian Klaas (2025). Fluke: chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters. Photo of tapestry with map behind by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) February 2026.

February

Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) February 2026.

February

"To erect the framework for flourishing, we need a reliable superstructure that provides for our basic needs, a bulwark against a precarious survival. What we don't need is a society that regularly gets upended by major systemwide shocks that jerk us in undesirable directions, ripping us out of the present to worry about our existential future (...) and democracies collapse." Brian Klaas (2025). Fluke: chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters. Photo of tapestry with map behind by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) February 2026.

January

“You cling to a thread of hope, of course you do. But in the face of the blunt instruments of silence and nothingness, the shadow of hope grows ever fainter.” Haruki Murakami (2025). The city and its uncertain walls. Without image of «Consciousness» tapestry (73 x 80 cm), January 2026, by Monica Pinheiro. 

January

 

"(...) remember that taking care of something else is an important part of taking care of yourself, because you are interwoven with the tentrillion things in this single garment of destiny that as been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended and washed". Rebecca Solnit (2025). No Straight Road Takes You There. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) December 2025.