Readings
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Sugar exports
Although it may not seem so, there are central themes that present themselves each month in the making of this blog’s posts. Elections aside, this month the theme is ancestry. I thought the best way to begin this theme would be to review an article to which I was able to contribute in the collection…
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The editing of reality
We are in 2026, another election year in Brazil. And, as happens with every election, we have already begun to see circulating on social networks and in family groups those messages that mix truth, half-truth, and invention. Edited videos, cut audio, suppressed contexts. None of this is new. What is new, perhaps, is the speed…
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Impermanence in silence
Silence is not static, it demands impermanence. And there is a kind of scream that is not born from fear. It is born when something inside us finally refuses to remain silent. For that is precisely what Anna Figueiredo’s article (linked in the sources at the end) is about the music video “Everybody Scream” by…
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Systems and Libraries
Have you ever stopped to think about what it would be like to find a specific item in a library that holds over 184 million items? I’m not talking about finding a book on a shelf. I’m talking about finding something in one of the largest documentary collections in the world. The existence of a…
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Hermes: the archetype of the messenger
Throughout history, different peoples have imagined a figure capable of doing what few can: crossing boundaries. Hermes, Mercury, Thoth, Turms, Nabu, Exu, different names and different cosmologies, yet all attribute great importance to characters who mediate paths, transport messages, translate languages, and bring distinct worlds closer together. This is not to say they are the…
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Pallas, memory and thought
Some time ago, I began studying astrology as a tool for self-knowledge. I like astrology because it offers images for thinking about ourselves, much like myths, tarot, or literature do. In addition to looking at a natal chart and studying the traditional planets and houses, many astrologers also use some asteroids in their readings. One…
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Botanical embroidery
This year, almost all of my embroideries have been botanical. Leaves, flowers, branches, roots. It wasn’t a conscious decision. It just happened. Today I think my unconscious already knew what my hands were looking for. This story began in college. Curiously, although I majored in Library and Information Science, it was there that I came…
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Moths and orixás
For a long time, science believed that several moths belonged to the same species. They were found in different regions of Brazil and received a single name: Eois russearia. It seemed simple. But nature is rarely as simple as it seems. Researchers from Unicamp and USP gathered different types of evidence: morphological characteristics, genetic analyses,…
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Embroidery: the oldest in the world
The history of embroidery is older than any written memory. Among the stitches still used today, cross-stitch is often pointed out as one of the oldest techniques. But even before fabrics existed, early humans were already joining hides and leathers with natural fiber threads. Needles were made of bone, some up to 30,000 years old,…
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Speaking of serpents…
Previously, I wove some reflections on the cyclical nature of becoming and on one of the images that fascinates me most when I think about processes of transformation the spiral and the Ouroboros, the serpent that bites its own tail. Today I want to continue this conversation along a different path, introducing another serpent from…