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.

February

"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 of Plants. 

Photo of «Weaving roots to a better world» tapestry (86 x 78 cm) by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) 2024.

February

 

“Home is where we know and are known, where we love and are beloved. Home is mastery, voice, relationship, and sanctuary; part freedom, part flourishing… part refuge, part prospect.” Shoshana Zuboff, 2019. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

Do what you can,

with what you have, wherever you are.

See initial sketch from last year. Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)

sketch

"Instead of generic perfection all at once you would want to make a particular structure that started as a sketch, capable of evolving." Richard Sennette, 2009. The Craftsman.

Sketch, September 2016. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)