becoming
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Where is this blog heading?
When this space was born, I simply called it a blog. Today I am no longer so sure that this word is enough. There is still a blog, of course! I keep writing texts, publishing research, sharing discoveries, and stitching together questions that arise along the way. But looking at everything that has been built…
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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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Horus and Matinta
The more I observe the world, the more I find images that speak about transformation in different cultures, mythologies, and symbolic traditions. Not because they tell the same story, but because they seem to try to answer, each in their own way, a deeply human question: how do we transform without ceasing to be who…
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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…
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Why Do I Embroider?
People who embroider often have an answer ready, and the vast majority will say it was to occupy their time, but there is a portion who will mention mental health. I have the impression that embroidery has always been a part of me, not because someone taught me; sometimes I feel as if I was…