Ecosystem: Fragmented Homes (2023)

Onion-dyed hand-made pocket, onion paper, heather honey, sea salt from Salinas de Aveiro, fermented garlic in honey, fermented garlic in brine, garlic peel bowl, camomile dyed cloth, ivy paper, ceramic cutlery, four leaf clovers, handmade tablecloth, cloth for helping, ‘A Slow Notebook’.

In fragmented homes, details of the farm populate a composition that changes with the weather, sunlight, oxygen, and time. From plant-based dyes to fermented foods and wandering textiles, this composition is the result of a month of residency a permaculture farm where Inês created slow objects that served the community around her: a cloth to help other humans in the kitchen, a pocket to pick fruits and gently transport seeds, a dress to take deep listening notes, fermented garlic in honey to energise microbiomes when the temperature drops, a bowl to honour all of the garlic and other amateur gestures of care.

At Quinta das Relvas, Branca (PT), within the SEEDS Project.

Photographs by Alicia Monreal Ortega.