May

"Throughout history, textiles (...) allow our subconscious to intuit a vast range of concepts (...) and speak to our ability to grasp these ideas. Weaving is something we share as humans." Maarit Saloleinen (2024) Interwoven. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) May 2026.

May

“War is a disease of humanity. There is no better healing than peace.” Read in The Conduit. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) May 2026.

sequel

The tapestry finished in May is the sequel to «Connected», "covering very different ground and ending up in unanticipated places", behind the mountain on the upper left side of last year's tapestry.

While reading the transformative book The Entanglement by Alva Noë, the weaving of this new tapestry gained a new direction, opening up new meanings along a line of questions that I had been avoiding. Perhaps the tapestries were not about nature, but more about finding myself within nature. 

Photo of part of the tapestry «Interconnected» (102 x 82 cm) by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC), May 2026.

May

"Artworks afford an opportunity for us to catch ourselves in the act of (...) bringing the world itself, or the artwork, into focus for consciousness. Art makes the aesthetic an opportunity for investigation and at the same time it makes us such an opportunity (...) Artworks are not mere triggers. They stage us". Alva Noë (2025). The Entanglement: how Art and Philosophy make us what we are.

Fotografia captada na exposição de José Pedro Croft «Reflexos, Enclaves, Desvios», no Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC), do Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB).

May

"Art is our most direct grappling with the aesthetic reality of our own nature and that of nature itself. Art is the achievement of the tree and the achievement of our relation to the tree. Art is the invention of seeing, and the invention of language". Alva Noë (2025). The Entanglement. How Art & Philosophy make us what we are. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) Maio 2026.

May

"We are not cameras. Eye, head, neck, body, movement. We see with all that, and then only thanks to our impulses, curiosity, feelings, and drive. (...) The world shows up to consciousness (...) not as in here, as represented, but rather, as available, as within reach." Alva Noë (2025). The Entanglement: how Art & Philosophy make us what we are. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) Maio 2026.