{"id":325,"date":"2024-07-31T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T09:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tailinhares.com\/?p=325"},"modified":"2024-07-31T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T09:51:59","slug":"coco-de-macuco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tailinhares.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/31\/coco-de-macuco\/","title":{"rendered":"Coco de Macuco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my grandmother\u2019s front yard there is a\u00a0coco de macuco<\/em>\u00a0palm tree that is more than 70\u00a0years old. This miniature palm, known by botanists as\u00a0Syagrus weddelliana<\/em><\/a>, is endemic to my home, Mag\u00e9, a region in the middle of the Atlantic Forest, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In front of the centenary house,\u00a0coco de macuco<\/em>\u00a0appears in the most emblematic family portraits as a kind of plant relative, small for a palm, but gigantic compared to the height of the women in my family, which is mostly below 1.55\u00a0m or five foot one. This story inspired me to create a large format embroidery piece and write an article published on Voices Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Embroidery Pieces<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The piece part of the 2024 \u201cPlant Fever\u201d exhibition at Pillnitz Palace and Park (Dresden, Germany) questions if it is possible to know a plant by extracting, classifying, and collecting it. The site specific work puts in relation two plants first catalogued by the same male botanist, the palm species Chrysalidocarpus lutescens<\/em>, living in the greenhouse in Pillniz since its reopening in 2009, and Syagrus weddelliana<\/em>, a miniature palm endemic to the Serra dos \u00d3rg\u00e3os National Park, a mountain region in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coco de macuco, 2023. <\/em><\/strong>Textile, embroidery and drawing – 150 x 200 cm<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Coco de macuco, 2023. <\/em><\/strong>Textile, embroidery and drawing – 150 x 200 cm<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

In the “Coco de macuco worldings” series the ASCII representation for the palm\u2019s name \u201ccoco de macuco\u201d was embroidered as binary code. The depicted places and faces represent the world \u201ccoco de macuco\u201d inhabits: the house on its back, the mountain on its front, and two generations of women who cared for the palm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coco de macuco worldings – casa velha, 2024.<\/em><\/strong> Drawing and embroidery – 8,5 x 12 cm<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Coco de macuco worldings – v\u00f3 Maria, 2024.<\/em><\/strong> Drawing and embroidery – 8,5 x 12 cm<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Coco de macuco worldings – morro, 2024.<\/em><\/strong> Drawing and embroidery – 8,5 x 12 cm<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Coco de macuco worldings – v\u00f3 Lina, 2024.<\/em><\/strong> Drawing and embroidery – 8,5 x 12 cm<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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