55) Lurid

It is always exhilarating when signs of appropriation, interpretation and growth keep appearing in the city and attempts of correction are given up, because more evolved aesthetics and striking beauty are at work here. Tree buds sprouting on roofs and facades, cracked roads and side walks shaped by the pressure of roots. Bats seize the summer air at dusk while nests of swifts and swallows are under the terraces and in the tin cladding of a 1985 social housing facade, ants find a way in the apartments, crickets sing from subterranean corners in the gaps of the radiator pipes going through the concrete floor, field mice live in the insulation material behind the facade. And there is at the end no difference, the forest is everything there is: an intricate tissue of sensation, intelligence, lurid radiance, and the dance of predators and prey. The Tiergarten paradigm.

It is always exhilarating when signs of appropriation, interpretation and growth keep appearing in the city and attempts of correction are given up, because more evolved aesthetics and striking beauty are at work here. Tree buds sprouting on roofs and facades, cracked roads and side walks shaped by the pressure of roots. Bats seize the summer air at dusk while nests of swifts and swallows are under the terraces and in the tin cladding of a 1985 social housing facade, ants find a way in the apartments, crickets sing from subterranean corners in the gaps of the radiator pipes going through the concrete floor, field mice live in the insulation material behind the facade. And there is at the end no difference, the forest is everything there is: an intricate tissue of sensation, intelligence, lurid radiance, and the dance of predators and prey. The Tiergarten paradigm.