Monica'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)

Oct 31, 2024

October

›
“ I experienced awe and wonder at this world we live in. How incredible existence is. The probability of our being here, of having survived ...
Oct 27, 2024

October

›
"She paused, and ran some sentences through her head, almost hearing herself (...). But she only let the words echo through her head, b...
Sep 22, 2024

September

›
" Because it is always tempting to over emphasize autonomy and independence, these helpless creatures are here to remind us that no one...
Jul 8, 2024

July

›
" how can humans serve as sources of healing and regeneration for every living system they affect ?" Regenerative Development an...
Jun 30, 2024

June

›
"There is a connection between the brain and the hand that supports an embodied cognition, a knowing. Handicrafts in particular, which ...
Jun 29, 2024

June

›
The making of " Places of terrible beauty and layered earth and buried secrets ." Suzane Simard (2022). Finding the Mother Tree: U...
Jun 21, 2024

June

›
"(...) from wholeness as a living plant to fragment strands and back to wholeness again as a" tapestry. "The dual powers of ...
Jun 20, 2024

Solstice

›
I've been discovering more affordances for the materials that nature (and people) offer me. At this time of the year there is an abundan...
Jun 13, 2024

June

›
"To let threads be articulate again and find a form for themselves to no other end than their own orchestration, not to be sat on, walk...
May 16, 2024

Biodiversity

›
« Biodiversity is the driver of the farm. If I'm asked "What do you grow?", I say "Biodiversity". The vegetables are...
May 3, 2024

May

›
"The most beautiful thing of all... is whatever you love best." Irene Vallejo (2022). Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancie...
Apr 28, 2024

creation at the core of art-I-fact

›
The beginning of a new tapestry starts long before I lay out the threads on the frame. Each tapestry starts as a synapse that survived in my...
Apr 13, 2024

April

›
Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) April 13, 2024.

April

›
 Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC) April 13, 2024.
Apr 7, 2024

April

›
"When you tape into the arts to foster a meditative state, the places in your brain responsible for judgment and personal criticism are...
Mar 30, 2024

sugar and oxygen

›
"Carbon dioxide plus water combined in the presence of light and chlorophyl in the beautiful membrane-bound machinery of life yields su...
Mar 22, 2024

March

›
O tempo oferece palcos onde vamos esculpindo vidas. A nossa e a de outros seres que se entrelaçam na nossa. O tempo, esse grande escultor, d...
Mar 1, 2024

March

›
How 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 any...
Feb 22, 2024

February

›
" What if we could fashion a restoration plan that grew from understanding multiple meanings of land? Land as sustainer. Land as identi...
Feb 21, 2024

February

›
" 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 ...
Feb 14, 2024

February

›
" 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 interna...
Feb 9, 2024

February

›
“ 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 burie...
Jan 29, 2024

January

›
"Time as objective reality has never made much sense to me. It's what happens that matters. (...) If there is meaning in the past a...
Jan 28, 2024

January

›
“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.” Rob...
Dec 22, 2023

Solstice

›
Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC), taken November 7, 2023.
Dec 12, 2023

cooperation

›
“In fighting against resistance, we will become more focused on getting rid of the problem than on understanding what it is; by contrast, wh...
Nov 25, 2023

unselfing

›
"Observing something beautiful" is "an occasion for unselfing" and it "may well hold the key to our collective surv...
Nov 12, 2023

Human rights

›
«(...) words and ideas underwent a radical currency devaluation, a crash connected, in ways we have barely begun to understand, to the torre...
Nov 7, 2023

November

›
"(...) metamorphosis occurs when two or more unlike elements are joined (...). Here the craftsman has consciously to decide if the comb...
Oct 8, 2023

Less machines

›
While reading about the « Workshop in Rotterdam: How to Build a Bike Generator », discovered the larger solution scenarios for human powered...
Oct 2, 2023

October

›
" If we had 30 days to save the world, would we act before the 29th ? " Photo by Monica Pinheiro CC BY-NC-SA (CC).
Sep 23, 2023

September

›
"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty; like a butterfly it seeks colour and basks in warmth." Virginia W...

Setembro

›
"Feeling the touch, discovering the colour, memorizing the smell. Weaving quietly different textures and tensions. Creating peace to g...
Sep 10, 2023

September

›
"The demand for urban nature-based solutions can be expected to rise exponentially, as greening cities is the best measure to address t...
Sep 9, 2023

September

›
"Space is transformed into place as it acquires definition and meaning." Yi-Fu Tuan (2005). Space and Place. The perspective of ex...
Sep 8, 2023

September

›
"Build a life that you don't need to escape from." "If true peace and clarity are what you seek in this life (...) know t...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Monica Pinheiro
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.