October

"There are certain fundamental rules that all ecosystems must follow. Energy, usually harnessed in from sunlight or, rarely, from the breakdown of minerals, must flow into the ecosystem to replace what is lost through activity and decay. The organisms that can access this energy are the producers, and those that cannot are the consumers, feeding on other living things in order to survive.” Thomas Halliday (2022). Otherlands: A World in the Making. Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

October

"Weaving is a transformative process with many functions. It involves clearing thought, and organizing personal energy and emotion. A handwoven work resists becoming mere product, or mere art." Sofi Thanhauser (2022). Worn: A People's History of Clothing. 

Photo of tapestry (78 x 110 cm) by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

Foodscapes

"The scale of the problem is so vast, complex and interconnected that inertia has plagued the issue. But, a foodscape-scale approach to planning and action can help drive swift progress that benefits both people and the planet." "(...) [W]idespread consensus that business as usual against a backdrop of accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss is not an option." (bold is mine) in The Nature Conservancy (2022). Regenerative Foodscapes: Accelerating A Global Food System Transition. Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

October

"The earth system reacts henceforth to your action in such a way that you no longer have a stable and indiferent framework in which to lodge your desires for modernizations." Bruno Latour, 1947-2022, in Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2020). Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

September

"Cloth can come from plants (cotton, linen), animals (sheep, silkworm), and, since the nineteenth century, from synthetic material and processes, namely plant-derived celulose liquefied and then extruded into strands (rayon) and various chemical recombinations of petroleum (nylon, spandex, polyester)." Sofi Thanhauser (2022). Worn: A People's History of Clothing. Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

October

"(...) it's not really about technology, but instead more about the quality of your life. (...) you'll come to realize that digital minimalism is much more than a set of rules, it's about cultivating a life worth living in our current age of alluring devices." Cal Newport (2020). Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

September

"Because digital minimalists spend so much less time connected than their peers, its easy to think of their lifestyles as extreme, but the minimalists would argue that this perception is backward: what's extreme is how much time everyone else spends staring at their screens." Cal Newport (2020). Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

August

“Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it, and make it survive, you haven’t done a thing. You’re just talking.” Wangari Maathai. Cited in The Green Belt Movement: 40 Years of Impact.

The last layer

"Whereas labour involves care and sustenance, work is the domain of creation and creativity. It calls on craft and skill and vision. It is about the dreaming of dreams and the making of things." Tim Jackson (2021). Post Growth: Life After Capitalism. Tapestry (July 2022). 

Photo of tapestry (80 x 102 cm) by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

July

"Beyond our material limits (...) lies another world. A place worth visiting. An investment worth making. A destination worth reaching. Tomorrow is another country. They do things differently there. Beyond the limits to affluence lies an affluence that only limits can reveal to us. Limits are the gateway to the limitless." Tim Jackson (2021). Post Growth: Life After Capitalism. Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

A Day Later set

Jorge Queiroz (2020). A Day Later 1, 2, 3, 4 e 5 (not in this order). Exposição «to go to», Calouste Gulbenkian. 

June

Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use it if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

February

"Love appears as the most unlikely pinnacle in an entire universe of improbability. It's the most spectacular victory in our ongoing struggle to bring order out of chaos." Tim Jackson (2021). Post Growth: Life After Capitalism. Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use it if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

July

"Is art resistance? Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil. But it seems to me that whatever else you do, it’s worth tending to paradise, however you define it and wherever it arises." Olivia Laing cited in Maria Popova «Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise». Makes me want to read the book Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (2021). Photo by Monica Pinheiro free to use it if you respect the license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

June

"Craft makes us human, and in doing so, it can provide deep satisfactions that are hard to replicate in other (dare I say) less hands-on activities." Cal Newport (2020). Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. Photo by Monica Pinheiro (PT20220621). License CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).

June

"What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself." Dreams by Nuage. Tapestry and photo by Monica Pinheiro (PT20220615). License CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).