September

Do you have local access to the materials you use? Are they widely available? Are they gathered near the point of creation? Can they be worked with simple, general-purpose tools? Can the spoils of your art feed the garden that feeds your art? Are those spoils nutrients? Do they create conditions for more life to emerge? Can they nourish the infrastructure that supports life, and the life that supports creativity? Is that infrastructure resilient? And your consciousness? Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) September 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

"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.

Gaia

Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

June

"Without me having to lift a finger, or calling for help, I know that the images belong to me, the owner of the body within which that mind is being fabricated, as I write, the owner of the living organism that I inhabit." Antonio Damasio, 2019. The strange order of things. Vintage Books Edition. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)