September

Anne Stabell on the slowness of catching time with the fingertips: "Repeating the same movements hour after hour, day after day, year after year. Feeling the threads of the warp and the weft against my fingertips, watching the image grow. I feel close to my inner self when weaving. I am taken by the slowness of the technique. I like things to take time. Slowness and the fullness of the idea-trigging moments are in some way related. (...) I pull the thread through a momentary hole in time, and weave the looking-glass image of what is at the other side of time. (...) I also put invisible threads of smaller and bigger everyday events, the books I read, the stories and music I listen to." Image and text from Anne Stabell site.

Ferment

"It may look as if nothing at all is happening (...). Yet, deep underground, at this very moment, nutrients are being gathered, the groundwork for future ebullience and dynamism is being laid down, another summer is very slowly collecting its strength". A Therapeutic Journey by Alain de Botton. Photo and sustainable natural living creation by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) December, 2025.

unplug the infinite

We need to "reinvent movement, the vector of our actions. We need to not forge ahead into the infinite, but learn to step back, to unplug, in the face of the finite. That's another way of liberating yourself. A form of feeling your way, and, curiously, of becoming capable again of reacting." Latour (2023). After Lockdown: metamorphosis. 

Photo of tapestry (80 x 74 cm) by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) October, 2024.

June

“The slowness of the craft time serves as a source of satisfaction (…). Slow craft time also enables the work of reflection and imagination – which the push for quick results cannot.” Richard Sennet, 2009. The Craftsman. Penguin Books.

Photo of tapestry (78 x 93 cm) by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) 2021.

March

"The world in our heads is not a (...) replica of reality; our expectations about the frequency of events are distorted by the prevalence and emotional intensity of the messages we are exposed." Daniel Kahneman (2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).

January

«If you are aware of a state you call is, or reality, or life, this implies a different state called isn't. Human consciousness is at the same time as being a form of awareness, sensitivity, and understanding, it's also a form of ignorance. The ordinary, everyday consciousness we have, leaves out more than it takes in. And because of this, it leaves out things that are terribly important. (...) The question that is absolutely basic for all human beings is: what have we left out?» Alan Watts in Man of No Ego (2015). Slowing Down. Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).