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12-5: \u201cGreen Areas\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

My neighborhood is full of \u201cgreen areas\u201d, so my first instinct for this project was to go there and find something interesting. Of course, in this \u201cgreen area\u201d in my neighborhood, I would find a lot of species. Including a lot of colorful, big, little, green, and leafy species. So, from the second I got there all I see is, redundantly, all green.<\/p>\n

Walking through there I started taking photos and paying more attention to any sound, patterns, and forms in which a species can grow. But, at the same time, I started questioning, why is there a specific space for wilderness to grow? This whole \u201cgreen area\u201d concept is very common in every city, but if you think it deeply, is a very meaningless way to perceive nature. In urban areas, often specified for humans only, wilderness is always there, whether we wanted or not. And it is very funny to think that before everything was populated and cities were built, wilderness and nature were there, reigning above all, living in their own kind of city.<\/p>\n

Now, we have kind of colonized these spaces, making them our own. Making in it so exclusively that there are places destined for the wilderness. And now we called them \u201cgreen areas\u201d.<\/p>\n

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12-10: Blindness\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

On this day I decided to not wilderness where wilderness is expected. I just walked and walked through my neighborhood. In this specific moment, I perceived nature based on the variety of theories seen in class. I observed how species and wildlife can create their habitat in places that they are not supposed to. How they are always there but we don\u2019t notice it. How invasive species can grow everywhere they want to. And how wildlife has no rules at all.<\/p>\n

In a simple staircase, I found a variety of species growing in their own way. In the middle of the stairs, in corners of cement, leaning on murals. Similarly happened with species in the ground, where they created their habitat around sewers, cracks, molds, streets, pipelines, and others.<\/p>\n

Visually, they are almost invisible. This is the \u201cblindness\u201d that we talked about in the past. \u201cIt is the impossibility to see nature beyond reflections of ourselves; beyond the cultural norms that have been constructed for us by centuries of philosophical thinking and scientific practices\u201d. Seeing wildlife grow in places that are not supposed to be for the is rare. Not because it doesn`t usually happen, quite the opposite, it always does, but because we do not tend to perceive wildlife in our space, in urban life, we don\u00b4t visually see it.<\/p>\n

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12-13: 5 pm Singing<\/strong><\/p>\n

On this day I realized the amount of interaction there is in only one place. Part of the process of this project is to kind of \u201cprove\u201d the theories and perceptions that a lot of authors presented in the course. Around my house, I found a lot of species interacting with each other. I could especially perceive how interactions between the urban and the wildlife can be possible not only visually but aurally.<\/p>\n