Readings
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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…
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Is becoming cyclical?
It depends. When we speak of becoming, we are speaking of transformation, but transformation does not mean a straight path. Many processes in life return continuously, though never in the same way, and that is precisely why I also understand becoming as a cyclical movement, yet without ever closing the circle, more like an ascending…
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What is becoming?
Devenir is a word describing a concept coined by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to characterize a way of thinking about processes of change. It indicates a process of transformation. For me, it is a very succinct way of describing my life. In English, the chosen term is “becoming.” Now, as a true Scorpio, I…