tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347674649751413272024-03-17T11:56:34.412+00:00Monica's jeans"The person figured here is not an autonomous, rational actor but an unfolding, shifting biography of culturally and materially specific experiences, relations, and possibilities inflected by each next encounter (...) in uniquely particular ways." (Lucy Suchman, Human-machine reconfigurations: plans and situated actions, 2009, 281)Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.comBlogger501125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-48888280554100117362024-03-01T08:41:00.042+00:002024-03-04T13:47:03.744+00:00MarchHow can we go on living our lives when people of war keep annihilating lives around the world? How can we devise a prosperous future for anyone or any country, when we can´t even guaranty the basic conditions of peace, shelter and food for life to happen? How can we allow that money and precious resources are allocated to destruction, instead of construction? What does our silence reveal in the Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-64117532021488298932024-02-22T02:28:00.040+00:002024-02-22T02:28:00.153+00:00February"What if we could fashion a restoration plan that grew from understanding multiple meanings of land? Land as sustainer. Land as identity. Land as grocery store and pharmacy. Land as connection to our ancestors. Land as moral obligation. Land as sacred. Land as self. (..) Land as home." Robin Wall Kimerer (2020). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,
Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-85499642130267566262024-02-21T22:18:00.042+00:002024-02-21T22:18:00.137+00:00February
"Beauty is not only formal, and lies not only in the superficial qualities that are appealing to the eye or ear, it lies in patterns of meaning, in evocations of values, and its connection to the life the reader is living and the world she wants to see." Rebecca Solnit (2022). Orwell's Roses. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) 2024.Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-74084619759523551842024-02-14T00:08:00.015+00:002024-02-14T00:08:00.210+00:00February
"We know that loving a person has agency and power - we know it can change everything. Yet we act as if loving the land is an internal affair that has no energy outside the confines of our head and heart." Robin Wall Kimerer (2020). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Photo by Monica Pinheiro. Free to use if you respect the license
CC Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-14670841312001672342024-02-09T20:08:00.003+00:002024-02-09T20:08:00.180+00:00February“Imperfect they may be, but I believe they are a beginning of a reweaving of the bond between people and the land. (…) I can take the buried stone from my heart and plant it here, restoring land, restoring culture, restoring myself.” Robin Wall Kimerer (2020). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,
Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Photo by Monica
Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SAMonica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-70625412582905834792024-01-29T00:08:00.013+00:002024-01-29T00:08:00.342+00:00January"Time as objective reality has never made much sense to me. It's what happens that matters. (...) If there is meaning in the past and in the imagined future, it is captured in the moment. (...) And we think of it as simply time, as if it where a thing, as if we understood it. Maybe there is no such thing as time; there are only moments, each with its own story." Robin Wall Kimerer (2020). Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-77243089250245838432024-01-28T20:41:00.000+00:002024-01-28T20:41:48.952+00:00January“If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.” Robin Wall Kimerer (2020). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. One month into winter (January 27), this black locust tree shows Spring time. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC), taken January 27, Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-37810971564088923022023-12-22T03:27:00.015+00:002023-12-22T03:27:00.146+00:00SolsticePhoto by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC), taken November 7, 2023.Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-49998732898534332822023-12-12T20:28:00.001+00:002023-12-12T20:28:00.139+00:00cooperation“In fighting against resistance, we will become more focused on getting rid of the problem than on understanding what it is; by contrast, when working with resistance we want to suspend frustration at being blocked, and instead engage with the problem in its own right”. Richard Sennett (2013). Together. The Rituals, Pleasures & Politics of Cooperation. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CCMonica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-57509858747780223282023-11-25T00:01:00.083+00:002023-11-25T00:01:00.135+00:00unselfing"Observing something beautiful" is "an occasion for unselfing" and it "may well hold the key to our collective survival. Because it means that our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives (...). It's to maximize (protect, regenerate) all life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to make sure that life survives. (...) We must attempt, Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-3958529284194681412023-11-12T21:59:00.006+00:002023-11-12T22:01:12.079+00:00Human rights«(...) words and ideas underwent a radical currency devaluation, a crash connected, in ways we have barely begun to understand, to the torrent of words in which we are swimming (...). I appreciated Greta's "Blah, blah, blah" speeches because they precisely captured the pervasive feeling of speechlessness, far better than my own impotent and sullen silences in this period.» Naomi Klein (2023). Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-83301693039303018422023-11-07T22:33:00.001+00:002023-11-12T22:13:47.758+00:00November"(...) metamorphosis occurs when two or more unlike elements are joined (...). Here the craftsman has consciously to decide if the combination will best work like a compound, in which the whole becomes different than its parts, or like a mixture, in which the elements continue an independent coexistence." Richard Sennett (2009). The Craftsman. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC).Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-49847518558354058912023-10-08T11:22:00.005+01:002023-10-08T11:22:59.881+01:00Less machinesWhile reading about the «Workshop in Rotterdam: How to Build a Bike Generator», discovered the larger solution scenarios for human powered societies, that tackle much more then climate crises and fossil consumption. They present integrated solutions to increase biodiversity, reduce city concentration, production near place of consumption, better health, sustainable farming, better soils and food,Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-84489532157910935172023-10-02T22:18:00.001+01:002023-10-02T22:18:00.149+01:00October"If we had 30 days to save the world, would we act before the 29th?" Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC).Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-56884582231433597712023-09-23T08:38:00.001+01:002023-09-23T08:38:00.144+01:00September"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty; like a butterfly it seeks colour and basks in warmth." Virginia Wolf (1930) in The Essays of Virginia Wolf: volume IX. Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC)Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-30552399496900678202023-09-23T06:50:00.044+01:002023-09-23T06:50:00.149+01:00Setembro"Feeling the touch, discovering the colour, memorizing the smell. Weaving
quietly different textures and tensions. Creating peace to guide
action. Liberating the mind to shape possibilities." June 2021, What can we do with what we already have?...Photos by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC)Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-32820527963042069962023-09-10T00:01:00.000+01:002023-09-10T00:01:00.157+01:00September"The demand for urban nature-based solutions can be expected to rise exponentially, as greening cities is the best measure to address the accelerating urban heat island effect". European Investment Bank, Hudson, G., Hart, S., Verbeek, A. (2023). Investing in nature-based solutions – State-of-play and way forward for public and private financial measures in Europe.Photo: Temperate part of, Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-21042860830227120532023-09-09T01:21:00.005+01:002023-09-09T01:21:00.144+01:00September"Space is transformed into place as it acquires definition and meaning." Yi-Fu Tuan (2005). Space and Place. The perspective of experience. Photo taken in July by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-49874816491364947422023-09-08T18:55:00.011+01:002023-09-08T19:00:18.343+01:00September"Build a life that you don't need to escape from." "If true peace and clarity are what you seek in this life (...) know that you will find them nearby and not faraway". Ryan Holiday (2019). Stillness is Key. Photo: Probably the smallest garden in the city: tropical part. Taken in august 2023 by Monica Pinheiro. Free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-48603721997767178222023-07-31T17:45:00.000+01:002023-07-31T17:45:29.647+01:00JulyHow strange that people who try to protect the Planet are called «activists» or «rebels», instead of «protectors» or «carers». Even stranger is that people who deliberately destroy the Planet are called «businessman» instead of «mass murders» or «planetary destroyers». Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-79373984745713915372023-07-30T20:55:00.002+01:002024-01-23T09:09:38.756+00:00JulyMade by Mother Earth and Father Time, and Love. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-71718691724732561852023-07-19T19:07:00.008+01:002023-07-19T19:07:00.147+01:00July"Particular attention should be paid to the material used, for good craftsmanship is built on natural foundations, and nature assures the material's quality. (...) When a certain locality is rich in a certain raw material, that material gives rise to a certain craftware. It is this resources, the gift of nature, that are the veritable mother of craftwork." Soetsu Yanagi (2018). The Beauty of Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-48545882296100312802023-07-18T18:07:00.001+01:002023-07-18T18:07:00.240+01:00July"When you can see yourself from outside, you contemplate existence with more humility and perceptiveness than when (...) you imagined yourself as the best self, your city as the best city, and what you called life as the only conceivable life." Rafael Argullol cited by Irene Vallejo (2022). Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancient world. Photo by Monica Pinheiro, free to use if Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-47675547464491459092023-07-17T10:05:00.004+01:002023-08-08T17:56:37.546+01:00July"It's a strange sort of pain. (...) To die of yearning for something you'll never experience." by Alessandro Baricco (1997). Silk. Painting: gouache and watercolour. June, 2023.Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634767464975141327.post-31801305720607941712023-07-02T19:58:00.037+01:002023-07-02T20:09:54.162+01:00nearness, seasonality and sustainabilityThe plants used in my tapestries come from my little garden, are gathered during my walks, or collected during visits to friends and family homes. Some are used right after collection in order to maintain enough elasticity to be worked out. Others are used dried because they offer great flexibility or because they gain other affordances with time. Seasonality plays a special role in my Monica Pinheirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15451276916984902319noreply@blogger.com0