<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[maria alvina]]></title><description><![CDATA[Maria Alvina]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 04:38:21 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.mariaalvina.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Turing Patterns]]></title><description><![CDATA[Texture is one of the pillars of aesthetic admiration for nature, for the beauty of patterns that are at once geometric and organic, in structures that convey a feeling of freedom. In biology, the process of building natural structures is called morphogenesis, a term formed from the Greek morphé (form) and genesis (origin). One of the names that helped found this field was precisely Alan Turing, also a pioneer of artificial intelligence. Turing had a background in mathematics, but he was also...]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/padr%C3%B5es-de-turing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acae234b89f0f638e40f67c</guid><category><![CDATA[Inteligência Artificial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ecologia digital]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:11:47 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_a729998d74a14524ae76cf466f6654c3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santinho]]></title><description><![CDATA[Santinhos are printed cards that have a face on one side and a message on the other. They have a religious origin (a Catholic saint on one side and their prayer on the other), but they came to be used in politics (the candidate on one side and the so-called “cheat sheet” on the other, with his numbers and other candidates from the same party). They are different, but they represent the same element: the iconography of Western visual culture. In their religious origin, the santinho breaks a...]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/santinho</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acae1ffb89f0f638e40f634</guid><category><![CDATA[Estética religiosa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gráfica Internacional]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:10:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_f4cceded99864d7588c690d9cedaa413~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alchemy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Graphic design in pop culture has been following the aesthetics of mythology for a while. Eusexua by FKA Twigs, Lux by Rosalía, Chromatica by Gaga—it is already common to find enigmatic symbols, sigils, runes. Sometimes in 3D carved in stone, wax, or metal, simulating handcraft or the protection of a message too strong to be said directly. Part of this is due to the boom in spirituality among young people, who use belief to imagine reality when it offers no hope. But part of it is also due to...]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/alquimia</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acae183e17be88e72d5d2b8</guid><category><![CDATA[Gráfica Internacional]]></category><category><![CDATA[Estética religiosa]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:09:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_8092a2bf43044414828f3bcb63ee1ee2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ex-votos]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ex-votos are objects offered to a divinity in thanks for a grace received. Their name comes from the Latin ex-voto suscepto (for the vow fulfilled). They appear in various places, from Egypt and Mesopotamia, and are made in various forms (painting, sculpture, written plaque), but their most popular form is the sculpture of a part of the body that was healed. The term “votive art” is used to define any object used as a religious offering, in order to request agreements with the divinity: it...]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/ex-votos</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acae151b89f0f638e40f561</guid><category><![CDATA[Gráfica Internacional]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:08:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_d50a5944f2694bd39b4716ba837b21ec~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palestinian Horse]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the first post in a series on Palestinian semiotics, created from the academic research of artist Kamal Zeidan for An-Najah Palestinian University. Jung states that, unlike the sign, which represents something known and objective, the symbol translates deep, complex, and unconscious stories. Zeidan observes that Palestinian artists living in exile make more literal and realistic art, while artists who remained in occupied territory use more surrealist languages, inspired by Western...]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/cavalo-palestino</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acae13c8e6a8de2adc94379</guid><category><![CDATA[Resistencia Palestina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gráfica Internacional]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:07:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_b3f9962656894757a9de0da1790269dd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arab Calligraphy &#38; Grafitti]]></title><description><![CDATA[Arabic-Islamic calligraphy has inhabited moodboards and Pinterest folders for some time now, both for its undeniable graphic quality and for the public appeal that Arab culture has gained with the conflicts involving Palestine and Iran. But when looking at such a different alphabet, it is easy to create a purely aesthetic admiration empty of context. From this idea, this post is a research piece that builds a contextual bridge between Arabic calligraphy and typographic graffiti, a popular art...]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/caligrafia-%C3%A1rabe-grafitti</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acae10586e1da51f6005443</guid><category><![CDATA[Gráfica Internacional]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:06:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_5c070f19b39a4e9d819b209e66ed8234~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kudzu]]></title><description><![CDATA[The history of digital life, like that of nature, is a history of migration. Everything changes and moves. It is a continuous dance of displacement and adaptation. In nature, ecology is the dance floor where different species dance together, sharing rules and coexisting. They organize themselves into trophic levels, the food chain that we usually simplify in the form of a pyramid, although it can take various structures. There are those who produce, those who consume, and those who decompose....]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/kudzu</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acae0d0b89f0f638e40f4ce</guid><category><![CDATA[Inteligência Artificial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ecologia digital]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:05:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_6e458128e71145d29a05adcdc6b9099d~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Primordial Desert]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2023, the UNCCD (United Nations sector for combating desertification) released the surreal fact that, every second, the world loses the equivalent of four football fields of healthy land. Among those responsible are agriculture and livestock farming. Together, their many forms of environmental destruction result in the final form: desertification. When it becomes desert, the soil becomes not only infertile and unfit for production, but also for habitation. There is no life. Here it is...]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/deserto-primordial</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acae09d8e6a8de2adc942b0</guid><category><![CDATA[Inteligência Artificial]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:04:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_74b7f512fbce4f4391e5eef86e812163~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seedless Fruits]]></title><description><![CDATA[When looking at plants as inspiration for thinking about new forms of society, biologist Stefano Mancuso analyzes the phenomenon of seedless fruits. He states that the plant universe has a very advanced organization, which he calls the “nation of plants.” In the laws of this nation, each part of a plant has a main function, but because it is a decentralized system, there are no borders or hierarchies, so the parts also act and influence the whole. The seed is the part of the plant responsible...]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/fruta-sem-semente</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acadf4de17be88e72d5cf92</guid><category><![CDATA[Inteligência Artificial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ecologia digital]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:58:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_ae28dffc4fb645e0b874c73a75eb7db4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fasciation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fasciation is a form of genetic mutation that occurs in plants, causing them to grow in a deliriously surrealistic way. The fasciation mutation occurs in the meristem, which is the tissue responsible for plant growth. It has a very great capacity for replication, playing the role of “telling the plant how it will grow.” Fasciation is a response of the meristem to some problem affecting the plant: chemical contamination, bacterial infection, or attacks by insects and parasites. However, the...]]></description><link>https://www.mariaalvina.com/post/fascia%C3%A7%C3%A3o</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6acacef62112e56959413ff3</guid><category><![CDATA[Ecologia digital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inteligência Artificial]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:49:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/178762_35a3b61da6ae486db9768752fd40cd76~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_887,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>maria alvina</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>