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Mateo

@mateooo.bsky.social

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Civic technologist, musician & aspiring adobero. NM | TX . Here for 🌎 climate action, 🏛️ public interest tech, 🧱 earthen building + architecture, ⚽ fútbol y más.

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

And I feel grateful to my partner Laura, mis amigos adoberos, y mi familia for supporting this continued exploration in heritage practice. We got a lot of bricks to make in 2025!

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Attending Earth USA in Santa Fe, New Mexico was a highlight in 2024. I feel grateful for the words of knowledge and experiences passed along by mentors and peers in the adobe building & preservation community.

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It's been another year chasing the ghosts of adobe past, present, and future. I feel grateful for all the sunny days I spent feeling the textures of earth and channeling relationships with ancestors and the living. 🧱 🌞 🤎 #earthenarchitecture #adobebrick #earthbuilder

Guy in front of Ron Rael's 3D-printed-adobe installation in Center, CO

Shadow of a guy at Fort Garland Museum in Southern CO

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

More passenger rail adventures on @amtrak.com. This time up to the mountains! 🎿 🚞 #WinterParkExpress

Two dude up way too early in the morning but excited to ride the train at Denver Union Station

Mustached dude chonking the duece on the train looking east at sunrise

Bearded dude with a cup of coffee looking out the window of a train

Two dude on the platform at Winter Park station, geared up and ready to ski. Thanks Amtrak!

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Great news! As predicted, the sun rose!

View from the train crossing the Colorado River in Austin, TX

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Show me your pet and what they were named after

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I found the new Gregg Popovich mural in the #SanAntonio Five Points neighborhood and was reminded of the philosophy behind #Spurs culture. Find inspiration and POUND THE ROCK!

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Woke up early to watch the sunrise from a choo choo train. SAT -> AUS #Amtrak

Passenger train next to the Alamodome at dusk

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Introduce yourself with four footballers

Ronaldinho, Brazilian winger in Barcelona jersey

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

In light of Trump's election, it felt really positive to be in a communal space that centered music and art. The congreso acknowledged our elders while also highlighting youth programs. NM Acequia Association did a great job cultivating hope & action despite the struggle ahead. Pa'lante!

Folk art print that says "Food Sovereignty for our Communities"

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

At the Congreso, the morning began with ceremony. Representatives of each acequia brought water samples from their streams to offer into one collective olla (ceramic jar). The ceremony reminded us that we are water and our streams are the veins that carry our lifeblood to the community #ElAguaEsVida

Acoma Pueblo olla (water jar). More info: https://vilcek.org/art/acoma-polychrome-olla-2006-06-01/

An altar with indigenous and catholic symbols, candles, flowers, and prayer offerings

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This wknd, I attended the 25th Annual Congreso de las Acequias in Las Vegas, #NewMexico. It was a gathering of farmers, land stewards & water protectors uniting our voices & collective power to honor our heritage practice & fight for its survival in the face of water privatization & #ClimateChange.

program cover for the congreso de las acequias. It includes text that describes the location and purpose of the event.

US Senator Ben Ray Lujan from New Mexico speak to an audience in front of a podium with a sign "El Agua es Vida | Water is Life"

Artwork displayed with San Isidro Labrador in traditional catholic folk art style. The image has a patron saint in the foreground with a water stream and crops growing. In the background is an angel plowing a field, mountains, sun, birds, and rainfall.

A woman mayordoma opening an irrigation gate with flood irrigation of fields in the background

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Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

1 step forward, 8 years backwards. F*ck em. Pa'lante!

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