{"id":41491,"date":"2020-05-12T05:16:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T09:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/?page_id=41491"},"modified":"2020-12-21T20:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:26:40","slug":"claassens-2020","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/claassens-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrine Claassens\u2014Love Letters to the Muted World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\" class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Welcome<\/strong> to an exhibition of paintings, musings, and written interventions that has us consider climate change, urban birds, and the &#8216;ecologically messy world&#8217; that we inhabit. All that, and a love letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>This is the Gallery Space\u2019s \u201cfront door\u201d and we are asking for a voluntary donation to support this exhibit\u2014a tip jar, or pay-what-you-will ticket.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">During COVID-19, The Urban Ecological Arts Forum at The Nature of Cities is bringing to life virtual exhibition spaces, highlighting current exhibitions on urban ecological themes that would otherwise be impossible to experience due to the closure of cultural facilities. <strong>Your ticket purchase ensures that the artist\u2014and that this online forum\u2014can continue to bring ecological arts to the public. Please donate what you can. 75% of your donation goes to the artist.<\/strong> You can see the show for free too; scroll down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"dbox-donation-button\" style=\"background: #388e3c url(https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png) no-repeat 37px;color: #fff;text-decoration: none;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;display: inline-block;font-size: 16px;padding: 15px 38px;padding-left: 75px;-webkit-border-radius: 2px;-moz-border-radius: 2px;border-radius: 2px;box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89;text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/claassens_exhibit\">Donate: Buy a &#8216;Virtual Ticket&#8217;<\/a>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone wide\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_ee1f06-bd\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_ee1f06-bd\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-2-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_09cd7b-7e\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n\n<a href=\"#introduction\">\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim-20 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Another-Dream-This-Time-of-Peppercorn-Trees-scaled.jpg);background-position:51% 95%;min-height:70vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>Love Letters to the Muted World<\/strong><br>an exhibition by Katrine Claassens<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Cape Town, South Africa<\/strong><br>&amp; <strong>Montreal, Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<\/a>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-2 kadence-column_b0dd5e-37\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n\n<a href=\"#essay\">\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Exhibition-shot-1-scaled.jpg);min-height:70vh;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>LOST and FOUND<\/strong><br>a companion essay to the work of Katrine Claassens<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.455), 18px);px\">by <strong>Nina-Marie Lister<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<\/a>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<span id=\"introduction\"> <\/span>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wide wp-block-heading\">Exhibition Introduction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/421814569\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Every natural system on earth is now defined by human activity, with planetary boundaries being rapidly and dangerously breached. This exhibition witnesses the quirks and tragedies of our time, evoking love for the ecologically rickety world we have shaped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It started with a painting of a South Carolina Parakeet. I first saw one in a natural history museum here in Montreal. It was a small, faded specimen in the corner of a glass vitrine in the lobby. Its label said \u2018disparu\u2019 &#8211; \u2018disappeared\u2019 or extinct in French. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;69dbbd7092e7b&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"69dbbd7092e7b\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-lightbox-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/South-Carolina-Parakeet-462x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41713\"\/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\taria-label=\"Enlarge\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption>South Carolina Parakeet\n<br>2019, Oil on canvas <br>30 x 25 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The South Carolina Parakeet was the only parrot species native to eastern North America. The cause of its extinction was entirely man-made: it was essentially shot out of existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>I have always had a deep need to witness and preserve through my work: to grip time and memories with paint. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I started painting the Parakeet, I felt a sense of responsibility to it. I was worried about not getting it right, about getting something wrong in the shape of the beak, or perhaps its stance, and thus betraying its memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My experience with this extinct bird links to another moment important to this body of work, also concerning birds, also parakeets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of birds in this exhibition, but you\u2019ll notice that most of them are not extinct, or even endangered. Actually, quite the opposite. Most are common in our cities and homes &#8211; budgies, pigeons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_6babbc-5a alignnone wide wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-grid kb-mobile-force-hover kb-gallery-id-_6babbc-5a kb-gallery-caption-style-cover-hover kb-gallery-filter-none kb-gallery-magnific-init\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"1\" data-columns-xl=\"1\" data-columns-md=\"1\" data-columns-sm=\"1\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Exhibition-shot-10-scaled.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land21 kb-has-image-ratio-land21\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Exhibition-shot-10-1536x1024.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Exhibition-shot-10-scaled.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Exhibition-shot-10-scaled.jpg\" data-id=\"42072\" class=\"wp-image-42072\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">In 2015, I was in Paris for the Conference of The Parties, the UN\u2019s annual climate change meeting. On a wintery walk in a park I saw a large flock of brilliant green birds alight the bare branches of a tree, squawking loudly. They were Rose-ringed Parakeets, escaped pets that now have large thriving populations in many European cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the midst of the intense climate negotiations of the conference, these birds seemed something magical, the flash of their exotic feathers against the hard surfaces of the city: a whisper of wilderness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Their resilience freed me to attempt to capture the beauty and banality of an ecologically messy world.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From these two encounters: the phantom limb of what is no longer there, and the utter audacity of life that tenaciously survives (or even thrives) in the most human of landscapes, other reflections ensued: ghostly flowers from suburban gardens, animals caught in camera traps, animals that live closely to us, and animals that live on the peripheries of our existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These works are love letters to a muted natural world. They look past our scorched earth onslaught to the beauty and life that yet persists, telling us a story of something that is always shifting and dissolving beyond our grasp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Katrine Claassens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wide wp-block-heading\">Explore the Exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_345a4f-72 alignnone wide wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-masonry kb-masonry-init kb-gallery-id-_345a4f-72 kb-gallery-caption-style-cover-hover kb-gallery-filter-none kb-gallery-magnific-init\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"3\" data-columns-xl=\"3\" data-columns-md=\"3\" data-columns-sm=\"2\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/White-Budgie.jpg\" data-description=\"White Budgie2019, Oil  on board18 x 12.6  cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1191px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:134%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/White-Budgie.jpg\" width=\"1191\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/White-Budgie.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/White-Budgie.jpg\" data-id=\"41715\" class=\"wp-image-41715\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">White Budgie<br>2019, Oil  on board<br>18 x 12.6  cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Ghost-Flowers-e1589366646874.jpg\" data-description=\"The Ghost Flowers\n2019, Oil on canvas\n91 x 61 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1068px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:149%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Ghost-Flowers-e1589366646874.jpg\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Ghost-Flowers-e1589366646874.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Ghost-Flowers-e1589366646874.jpg\" data-id=\"41714\" class=\"wp-image-41714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Ghost-Flowers-e1589366646874.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Ghost-Flowers-e1589366646874-374x560.jpg 374w, https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Ghost-Flowers-e1589366646874-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/The-Ghost-Flowers-e1589366646874-67x100.jpg 67w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" \/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">The Ghost Flowers\n<br>2019, Oil on canvas\n<br>91 x 61 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-Roadside-Rabbit.jpg\" data-description=\"Screenshot (Roadside Rabbit)\n2020, Oil on poplar wood\n15.2 x 10cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1600px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:65%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-Roadside-Rabbit.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1046\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-Roadside-Rabbit.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-Roadside-Rabbit.jpg\" data-id=\"41712\" class=\"wp-image-41712\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Screenshot (Roadside Rabbit)\n<br>2020, Oil on poplar wood\n<br>15.2 x 10cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-Night-flower.jpg\" data-description=\"Night Flower (Screenshot)\n2020, Oil on poplar wood\n12.6 x 17.8  cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1600px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:73%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-Night-flower.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1168\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-Night-flower.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-Night-flower.jpg\" data-id=\"41711\" class=\"wp-image-41711\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Night Flower (Screenshot)\n<br>2020, Oil on poplar wood\n<br>12.6 x 17.8  cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Roadside-Dove-in-Water-1-e1589366680459.jpg\" data-description=\"Roadside Dove in Water2020, Oil on Canvas61 x 91cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1082px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:147%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Roadside-Dove-in-Water-1-e1589366680459.jpg\" width=\"1082\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Roadside-Dove-in-Water-1-e1589366680459.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Roadside-Dove-in-Water-1-e1589366680459.jpg\" data-id=\"41710\" class=\"wp-image-41710\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Roadside Dove in Water<br>2020, Oil on Canvas<br>61 x 91cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Decorated-Budgie-1.jpg\" data-description=\"Decorated Budgie\n2020, Oil on poplar wood\n22.5 x 17.5\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1236px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:129%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Decorated-Budgie-1.jpg\" width=\"1236\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Decorated-Budgie-1.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Decorated-Budgie-1.jpg\" data-id=\"41704\" class=\"wp-image-41704\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Decorated Budgie\n<br>2020, Oil on poplar wood\n<br>22.5 x 17.5<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Queen-of-the-Night-e1589366713746.jpg\" data-description=\"Queen of the Night\n2020, Oil on poplar wood\n41 x 51.5 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1301px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:122%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Queen-of-the-Night-e1589366713746.jpg\" width=\"1301\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Queen-of-the-Night-e1589366713746.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Queen-of-the-Night-e1589366713746.jpg\" data-id=\"41709\" class=\"wp-image-41709\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Queen of the Night\n<br>2020, Oil on poplar wood\n<br>41 x 51.5 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Azalea-Bush-by-the-Old-Zoo.jpg\" data-description=\"Azalea Bush by the Old Zoo\n2020, Oil on poplar wood\n20 x 25 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1600px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:81%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Azalea-Bush-by-the-Old-Zoo.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1307\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Azalea-Bush-by-the-Old-Zoo.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Azalea-Bush-by-the-Old-Zoo.jpg\" data-id=\"41701\" class=\"wp-image-41701\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Azalea Bush by the Old Zoo\n<br>2020, Oil on poplar wood\n<br>20 x 25 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Flash-with-Fuchsias-1.jpg\" data-description=\"Night Flash with Fuchsias\n2020, Oil on board\n121.5 x 183 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1067px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:149%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Flash-with-Fuchsias-1.jpg\" width=\"1067\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Flash-with-Fuchsias-1.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Flash-with-Fuchsias-1.jpg\" data-id=\"41708\" class=\"wp-image-41708\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Night Flash with Fuchsias\n<br>2020, Oil on board\n<br>121.5 x 183 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Cactus-e1589366745197.jpg\" data-description=\"Night Cactus\n2019, Oil on poplar wood\n25.5 x 20.2 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1279px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:125%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Cactus-e1589366745197.jpg\" width=\"1279\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Cactus-e1589366745197.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Cactus-e1589366745197.jpg\" data-id=\"41706\" class=\"wp-image-41706\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Night Cactus\n<br>2019, Oil on poplar wood\n<br>25.5 x 20.2 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Easy-Care-for-Your-Budgie.jpg\" data-description=\"Easy Care for Your Budgie 2019, Oil on poplar wood 20 x 15 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1214px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:131%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Easy-Care-for-Your-Budgie.jpg\" width=\"1214\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Easy-Care-for-Your-Budgie.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Easy-Care-for-Your-Budgie.jpg\" data-id=\"41705\" class=\"wp-image-41705\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Easy Care for Your Budgie <br>2019, Oil on poplar wood <br>20 x 15 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Camera.jpg\" data-description=\"Night Camera\n2020, Oil on poplar wood 20 x 25 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1600px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:80%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Camera.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1292\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Camera.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Night-Camera.jpg\" data-id=\"41707\" class=\"wp-image-41707\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Night Camera\n<br>2020, Oil on poplar wood <br>20 x 25 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Camera-Trap-Pigeon.jpg\" data-description=\"Camera Trap Pigeon with the Pinkest Feet\n2020, Oil on poplar wood\n20.3 x 25.4\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1273px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:125%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Camera-Trap-Pigeon.jpg\" width=\"1273\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Camera-Trap-Pigeon.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Camera-Trap-Pigeon.jpg\" data-id=\"41703\" class=\"wp-image-41703\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Camera Trap Pigeon with the Pinkest Feet\n<br>2020, Oil on poplar wood\n<br>20.3 x 25.4<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blue-Circus-Horses-From-Gif-1-e1589366774887.jpg\" data-description=\"Blue Circus Horses From Gif\n2019, Oil on poplar wood\n35 x 28 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1261px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:126%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blue-Circus-Horses-From-Gif-1-e1589366774887.jpg\" width=\"1261\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blue-Circus-Horses-From-Gif-1-e1589366774887.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Blue-Circus-Horses-From-Gif-1-e1589366774887.jpg\" data-id=\"41702\" class=\"wp-image-41702\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Blue Circus Horses From Gif\n<br>2019, Oil on poplar wood\n<br>35 x 28 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/A-Marker-A-Message-Heavy-As-The-World-1.jpg\" data-description=\"A Marker, A Message, Heavy As The World\n2019, Oil on poplar wood\n25 x 20 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1274px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:125%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/A-Marker-A-Message-Heavy-As-The-World-1.jpg\" width=\"1274\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/A-Marker-A-Message-Heavy-As-The-World-1.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/A-Marker-A-Message-Heavy-As-The-World-1.jpg\" data-id=\"41699\" class=\"wp-image-41699\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">A Marker, A Message, Heavy As The World\n<br>2019, Oil on poplar wood\n<br>25 x 20 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-has-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Another-Dream-This-Time-of-Peppercorn-Trees-1.jpg\" data-description=\"Another Dream: This Time of Peppercorn Trees\n2019, Oil on board\n28 x 35.5 cm\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1600px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:78%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Another-Dream-This-Time-of-Peppercorn-Trees-1.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1257\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Another-Dream-This-Time-of-Peppercorn-Trees-1.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Another-Dream-This-Time-of-Peppercorn-Trees-1.jpg\" data-id=\"41700\" class=\"wp-image-41700\"\/><\/div><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Another Dream: This Time of Peppercorn Trees\n<br>2019, Oil on board\n<br>28 x 35.5 cm<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<span id=\"essay\"> <\/span>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-left wide wp-block-heading\">Exhibition Companion Essay<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Written by Nina-Marie Lister, the following essay includes a &#8216;forward&#8217; and &#8216;afterward,&#8217; featuring transcripts of personal correspondence between Lister and Classens. It provides us with an intimate insight into their friendship, and to two radically different &#8212; yet equally vivid and compelling &#8212; views of urban nature, one from a researcher and professor of urban planning, and the other from an ecological artist with a degree in climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"kt-info-box_ee6237-91\" class=\"wp-block-kadence-infobox\"><a class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-link-wrap kt-blocks-info-box-media-align-left kt-info-halign-left\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-media-container\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-media kt-info-media-animate-none\"><div class=\"kadence-info-box-image-inner-intrisic-container\" style=\"max-width:122px\"><div class=\"kadence-info-box-image-intrisic kt-info-animate-none\" style=\"padding-bottom:71.06382978723404%;height:0;width:470px;max-width:100%\"><div class=\"kadence-info-box-image-inner-intrisic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cardeergreen.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"334\" class=\"kt-info-box-image wp-image-42295 \"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-infobox-textcontent\"><h2 class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-title\">Content Advisory<\/h2><p class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-text\">The following essay contains graphic content [depictions of dead animals] that may be disturbing to some readers.<\/p><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover wide\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Exhibition-shot-1-scaled.jpg);min-height:75px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>LOST and FOUND<\/strong><br>a companion essay to the work of Katrine Claassens<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">by <strong>Nina-Marie Lister<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\">Forward \/ Winter<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We are celebrating our 3-year friendship. Artist-climate activist and ecologist-designer. We met in Portland (a tip of two floral hats, and a gracious thank you to David and The Nature of Cities), a long way from Toronto and longer still from Cape Town. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our conversations have become a multi-media notebook of sketches, photographs, internet memes, poems, voice notes\u2026 and lots of botanical discoveries. We walk a creative tension, exploring the blurred boundaries between endangered and emerging ecosystems; we mourn what is lost, rejoice in what is saved, and wonder what is yet to be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Katrine Claassens: It is insane, going to \u201cnormal work\u201d right now, in the middle of the Sixth Extinction. What for? Why are doing this? Have we all been so seduced by the idea of normal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nina-Marie Lister: Normal work is what caused this. So, what are we working for, if not to save our home, our beautiful planet? We are living out-of-bounds. We are entering a new world of our making. And likely less hospitable for us, no longer the masters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KC: The camera trap images resonate for me\u2026 this feeling has a grip on me, growing since I started living the climate work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NML: The images are riveting. We use them in research. Combing through them by hundreds, thousands to track movement patterns, hot spots. But I am the one captivated. I realise the animals have character, personality. Do they wonder at us and our voyeurism?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KC: I\u2019m fascinated by the flattened quality of the flash images. At night especially, you lose the resolution, you lose some of the very quality you seek to highlight. It\u2019s a strange and compelling irony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NML: then there are the real traps\u2026. our house-sitter trapped a weasel in the kitchen compost. It was so angry, spirited, it almost chewed through the wire cage. Was it our home or its home from which we ousted it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KC: I found this from T.S. Elliot. It has helped shed light\u2026 hard poetry for hard times:<br>What are the roots that clutch \/ what branches that grow \/ out of this stony rubbish\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NML: We hit a squirrel in the road today. Had to turn around and run it over again, because it was writhing. Mercy. But why now, when the world seems falling apart? But then I came home to find a swallow in the garden, calling for a mate. It had come home too. Small miracles of migration\u2026 signs of life carrying on around us, without us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KC: A time of monsters perhaps: the old world is dying and the new cannot be born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NM: What do you suppose we will keep, lose or leave? What we will keep and what will we let go? I hope it is with a breath of kindness, as the chaff is blown from the grain\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_5f9f56-fc alignnone wide wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-grid kb-gallery-id-_5f9f56-fc kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"3\" data-columns-xl=\"3\" data-columns-md=\"3\" data-columns-sm=\"2\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land43 kb-has-image-ratio-land43\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-scan-of-city-bird-1-407x560.jpg\" width=\"407\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-scan-of-city-bird-1-scaled.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-scan-of-city-bird-1-scaled.jpg\" data-id=\"42199\" class=\"wp-image-42199\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land43 kb-has-image-ratio-land43\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Paris-Street-Art-747x560.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Paris-Street-Art.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Paris-Street-Art.jpg\" data-id=\"42203\" class=\"wp-image-42203\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land43 kb-has-image-ratio-land43\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-trapped-animal-996x560.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-trapped-animal.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-trapped-animal.jpg\" data-id=\"42217\" class=\"wp-image-42217\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><em>images (left to right): Katrine Claassens; Nina-Marie Lister (art by Ruben Carrasco); Vanessa Rieger<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:70px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>One in the hand<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>I heard the sickening thump while tap-tapping at my keyboard. Looked up and saw him? her? lying prone, wings spread wrong, legs kicking, head lolling. I reach out, gingerly, my breath coming shallower and faster, hoping. My heart thud-thudding. My fingers trace the silky feathers, warmth radiating through the impossible rosy hue that stains the breast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>A tiny heart tick-ticking. I exhale and bring the bird to rest, inside a crude and makeshift nest, a box, a towel an hour. Dark and quiet. Deeper breaths. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_13aed2-5e alignnone wide wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-grid kb-gallery-id-_13aed2-5e kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"3\" data-columns-xl=\"3\" data-columns-md=\"3\" data-columns-sm=\"2\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-port34 kb-has-image-ratio-port34\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-red-bird.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"720\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-red-bird.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-red-bird.jpg\" data-id=\"42207\" class=\"wp-image-42207\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-port34 kb-has-image-ratio-port34\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Bird-in-hands-yellow.jpeg\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Bird-in-hands-yellow.jpeg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Bird-in-hands-yellow.jpeg\" data-id=\"42208\" class=\"wp-image-42208\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-port34 kb-has-image-ratio-port34\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-black-and-grey-bird.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-black-and-grey-bird.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-black-and-grey-bird.jpg\" data-id=\"42205\" class=\"wp-image-42205\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><em>images: Nina-Marie Lister<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot bear another one lost to my vitrine vanity. Deadly windows, too close to the shores that beckon the birds home to recover, feed and breed. I wait, I peek and am relieved. So is the Rose-Breasted Grosbreak \u2013 who rose, shat, fluffed, and in a blink, flicked and flit away. One more survives to sing the song of spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:130px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone wide\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_b5f684-73\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_b5f684-73\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-2-columns kt-gutter-wider kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-right-golden kt-tab-layout-row kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row kt-custom-first-width-55 kt-custom-second-width-45\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_caae77-5a\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dislocated<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">I am running, sweating, panting, and late. It\u2019s unseasonably hot for June. Summer dress sticking to my legs, impractical heels catching in the cobblestones, clack clack. My overstuffed briefcase weighed down by books and the umbrella, contorted and clumsy, smack smack. I stop and check my Metro map. Am I lost? Surely they won\u2019t start without me. I duck around the corner in hopes of a shortcut. <\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>I hear a distinctly tropical <em>squaw-squaw<\/em>, an avian laugh, just out of sight. <em>Squaw-squaw<\/em>, tongue-clicking, <em>tsk tsk<\/em>. Mocking me. Where am I? <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">I stop, turn and listen again, moving away from the meeting I\u2019m missing. <em>Squaw-squaw<\/em> ha-ha <em>tsk tsk<\/em>. I am at once pulled and propelled by that seductive taunt. The heat is oppressive, the air humid and swollen with the threat of rain. I look up nervously, scanning the darkening sky. Wet grey wooly wads against the hazy, fading blue. Then, an improbable flash of emerald\u2014an iridescent green between the grays. I squint and then stare. There they are, a mocking flock of parakeets come into focus, alighting in the London plane trees. African ring-necked parakeets. They look at me curiously, a clumsy sweaty human, staring open-mouthed in wonder as the skies open. I am a stranger in Paris. And they are, quite unnaturally, at home.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-2 kadence-column_8b3173-6d\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_84422b-71 alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-masonry kb-masonry-init kb-gallery-id-_84422b-71 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none kb-gallery-magnific-init\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"1\" data-columns-xl=\"1\" data-columns-md=\"1\" data-columns-sm=\"1\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kb-gallery-item-has-link kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Parakeets-in-Paris.jpg\" class=\"kb-gallery-item-link\"   role=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:1003px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:133%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Parakeets-in-Paris.jpg\" width=\"1003\" height=\"1337\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Parakeets-in-Paris.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Parakeets-in-Paris.jpg\" data-id=\"42212\" class=\"wp-image-42212\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><em>image: Nina-Marie Lister<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:110px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone wide\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_97837b-2e\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_97837b-2e\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-2-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-right-golden kt-tab-layout-row kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row kt-custom-first-width-60 kt-custom-second-width-40\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_c04aa9-68\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_d8663a-4c alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-masonry kb-masonry-init kb-gallery-id-_d8663a-4c kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"2\" data-columns-xl=\"2\" data-columns-md=\"2\" data-columns-sm=\"2\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:746px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-streetside-bird-746x560.jpg\" width=\"746\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-streetside-bird.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-streetside-bird.jpg\" data-id=\"42216\" class=\"wp-image-42216\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:420px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:133%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Roadside-Rabbit-420x560.jpeg\" width=\"420\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Roadside-Rabbit.jpeg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Roadside-Rabbit.jpeg\" data-id=\"42214\" class=\"wp-image-42214\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:712px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Roadside-bird-blue.jpeg\" width=\"712\" height=\"534\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Roadside-bird-blue.jpeg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Roadside-bird-blue.jpeg\" data-id=\"42213\" class=\"wp-image-42213\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size\"><em>images: Nina-Marie Lister<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-2 kadence-column_dd91b3-a5\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-heading\"><strong>Emergence<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-medium-font-size\">Night time, rain-slicked road, headlights fuzzy in the fog. The droplets plop-plopping on my windscreen become waves. I can\u2019t see. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Slowing down to wish-wash through the river that was the road. Everywhere there are frogs. Hop-hopping between the yellow lines, black tracks my tires make. I can\u2019t bear to look at the carnage the car is wreaking. Which is the water? Where is the road. The tempest has washed them into one. Water is everywhere before it is somewhere<sup>1<\/sup> as rains gather to form rivulets, rivers that now ravage roads. I am in the impossible terrain of rain<sup>2<\/sup>, watching as the frogs move like fish, overtaking the road in the storm. The headlights now blurry eyes, peering into the pouring. Rain. And in a flash, there is white, strobe-light bright and rising. Swiftly, silently, up, up into the forest overhead. Her wing tips stroke the windscreen, their span dwarfing the tin-can car. An owl on her prowl is undeterred by weather, water or the whimper of the human barely breathing in her shadow.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:110px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone wide\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_c4d98b-25\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_c4d98b-25\"><div class=\"kt-row-layout-top-sep kt-row-sep-type-littri\"><svg style=\"fill:#ffffff\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 100\" preserveAspectRatio=\"none\"><path d=\"M500,2l25,98l-50,0l25,-98Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/div><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-2-columns kt-gutter-wider kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-right-golden kt-tab-layout-row kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row kt-custom-first-width-40 kt-custom-second-width-60\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_0a36c0-90\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Trapped<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Measurements are made. The camera carefully placed. Hidden in the brush. Track pads raked clean of prints made by paw, hoof and claw. The infra-red eye staring. Waiting. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>But silent stalkers and quiet walkers will make movements however slight. Rustle, bustle, chase and burst forth into its view. Click-click. (Com)motion triggers shutter. Click-click, the creature\u2019s ears prick-prick. Ears hear, head turns and the gaze is caught by the eye. Who has been here? More than we see, the night creatures, hidden in plain sight. Where do they walk, rest and roost? Silently slinking, quietly creeping, boldly bounding they are caught and held, their grainy, ghosted images trapped. Voyeurism as research. They leave us this trace, a tiny tease. Prints on paths that intertwine invisibly with ours.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-2 kadence-column_5573f5-7a\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_604959-7f alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-masonry kb-masonry-init kb-gallery-id-_604959-7f kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"1\" data-columns-xl=\"1\" data-columns-md=\"1\" data-columns-sm=\"1\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:996px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Moose-996x560.jpeg\" width=\"996\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Moose.jpeg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Moose.jpeg\" data-id=\"42210\" class=\"wp-image-42210\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\" style=\"max-width:780px;\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-camera-trap-bear.jpeg\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-camera-trap-bear.jpeg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-camera-trap-bear.jpeg\" data-id=\"42209\" class=\"wp-image-42209\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><em>images courtesy of ARC Solutions<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:110px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Promise<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There is so much beauty in the biodiversity of this blue marble. Breath-taking, heart-stopping, mind-numbing. We cannot ever count it all. The library of life is bleeding away, lost to us before it is ever found. Can it be loved when it is not counted, classified, or named? I hope so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is so much beauty in the biodiversity of this blue marble. Breath-taking, heart-stopping, mind-numbing. We cannot ever count it all. The library of life is bleeding away, lost to us before it is ever found. Can it be loved when it is not counted, classified, or named? I hope so. We lament the loss, but we do nothing. I mourn the crushed egg, fallen from the nest, life leaking into my hand<sup>3<\/sup>. I feel the sharp pull of my insides when I pass the slumped shape by the roadside, fur matted, a rusty pool staining the pavement. I walk among still-warm feathers at the toe of the towers, counting the mounting carnage each spring and fall. I await the return of winged migrants, breath held each spring, through weird and wacky weather. Their numbers, like their bodies, plummet. Vital, vernal and eternal, the insects hatch, the buds burst, but where are those who feed, forage and feast on this bounty? In the midst of this crash, I look for signs of life among the ruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_248f38-c0 alignnone wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-grid kb-gallery-id-_248f38-c0 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"2\" data-columns-xl=\"2\" data-columns-md=\"2\" data-columns-sm=\"2\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land43 kb-has-image-ratio-land43\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-small-egg-420x560.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-small-egg.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-small-egg.jpg\" data-id=\"42215\" class=\"wp-image-42215\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-land43 kb-has-image-ratio-land43\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-red-bird-in-hand-420x560.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-red-bird-in-hand.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-red-bird-in-hand.jpg\" data-id=\"42206\" class=\"wp-image-42206\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><em>images: Nina-Marie Lister<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Some species surprise us, emerging as if from fairy-tale slumber, blinking into city light. Others appear here, then are gone, vanished overnight. The racoons and rats are thriving, but the whip-poor-wills gone silent. Parrots in Paris, boars in Rome, coyotes and foxes in Toronto, New York and Montreal too. In cities, the swifts spiral around collapsed and abandoned chimneys. But what is the barn swallow without the barn?<sup>4<\/sup> Our cities grow bigger, consuming countryside, slipping into wildlands beyond. The wolves have been returned to Yellowstone but remain far from their ranges, pushed out and corralled in a park. It is easy with a full-heart to be lulled into to love with the wild and sacred large landscapes of our protected places. But if you fall in love with the marginal landscapes of sacrifice and suffering, then (as Jedidiah Purdy laments), \u201cyour love prepares your heart for breaking\u201d<sup>5<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Where will my broken-heart for nature go? <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I see pale promise of the novel and the newly-emerging, in places distorted by species dislocated. I take deep pleasure in the weedy and the stray, the forgotten humble plants and the mongrel landscapes<sup><u>6<\/u><\/sup> of their in-between. I hope fervently and fiercely for connections made among the fragments, for remaking the ruins, and re-weaving and re-wilding. For the moment though, I am stuck between lamenting what is lost and learning patience for what is yet to be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"kb-gallery-wrap-id-_784a11-77 alignnone wide wp-block-kadence-advancedgallery\"><ul class=\"kb-gallery-ul kb-gallery-non-static kb-gallery-type-grid kb-gallery-id-_784a11-77 kb-gallery-caption-style-bottom-hover kb-gallery-filter-none\" data-image-filter=\"none\" data-item-selector=\".kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" data-lightbox-caption=\"true\" data-columns-xxl=\"3\" data-columns-xl=\"3\" data-columns-md=\"3\" data-columns-sm=\"2\" data-columns-xs=\"1\" data-columns-ss=\"1\"><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-port34 kb-has-image-ratio-port34\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-Montreal-Wild-flowers-407x560.jpg\" width=\"407\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-Montreal-Wild-flowers.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-Montreal-Wild-flowers.jpg\" data-id=\"42201\" class=\"wp-image-42201\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-port34 kb-has-image-ratio-port34\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-city-wild-flowers-407x560.jpg\" width=\"407\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-city-wild-flowers-scaled.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-city-wild-flowers-scaled.jpg\" data-id=\"42200\" class=\"wp-image-42200\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><li class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item\" tabindex=\"0\"><div class=\"kadence-blocks-gallery-item-inner\"><figure class=\"kb-gallery-figure kadence-blocks-gallery-item-hide-caption\"><div class=\"kb-gal-image-radius\"><div class=\"kb-gallery-image-contain kadence-blocks-gallery-intrinsic kb-gallery-image-ratio-port34 kb-has-image-ratio-port34\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Prince-Edward-Country-flower-420x560.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"560\" alt=\"\" data-full-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Prince-Edward-Country-flower.jpg\" data-light-image=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Nina-Marie-Lister-Prince-Edward-Country-flower.jpg\" data-id=\"42204\" class=\"wp-image-42204\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\"><em>images: Katrine Claassens (left, center); Nina-Marie Lister (right)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Afterward \/ Spring<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>NML: I find myself wandering around derelict lots and storm drains in this sad city\u2026 they are bizarre beacons of hope, life emerging among the ruins. Weeds and waste, where escaped pets have become feral. A new urban nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KC: I realise what a soft spot I have for these \u201cdamaged\u201d landscapes. There is something I relate to, something that mirrors what is inside. When I see weeds peeping through, it brings me such joy, and it just sucks me in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NML: Light along with life emerges from the cracks. The weeds destroy the pavement we laid down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KC: I wonder what happens when we lose patience and hope but keep the compassion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NML: Compassion and humility. They are all we have got to make meaning life in a ravaged beautiful and emerging new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NML: Today I saw a lone trumpeter swan fly overhead and land in the bay. It was breath-taking to see this magnificent and rare creature, all white, with a black face and black legs. It swam with some geese, honking for a mate that may never come. The geese flew away, and it remained alone. Honking plaintively, or hopefully?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KC: My brother found that last recorded call of that extinct bird, and I was listening to it while I worked. It awakened this awful private (or maybe lonely?) sense of loss. I just listened and listened\u2026 and then a bird landed on my balcony. A little sparrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NML: This evening I heard a whip-poor-will sing in our hedgerow at dusk. I held my breath and waited to be sure I\u2019d really heard, and not just imagined it. My eyes brimmed and leaked, and my heart stirred and opened. I had not heard that song in a decade at least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Legends say that the whip-poor-will can sense a soul departing and can capture it as it flees. I wonder, does the whip-poor-will sing for the soul of our departing world? Or does it capture ours, before we are lost?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Let us hold onto the birds of the earth with as much hope as we have for the songs they sing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NML<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Endnotes<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dilip da Cunha, 2018. The Invention of Rivers: Alexander\u2019s Eye and Ganga\u2019s Descent. University of Pennsylvania Press. 352p.<\/li><li>Ibid.<\/li><li>With thanks to Kat Claassens for her poem (Egg, broken by cat\u2019s teeth), pers. comm. 2020.<\/li><li>With thanks to Jeremy Guth for asking the question, pers. comm. 2020<\/li><li>Jedidiah Purdy, 2015. After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press (page 206).<\/li><li>Richard Weller\u2019s term in \u201cWorld Park\u201d, in LA+ Wild. Vol 1 (10-19).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Meet The Artist: Watch the Event<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/429317759\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wide wp-block-heading\">About the Exhibition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone wide\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_50aa23-3b\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_50aa23-3b\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-2-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_333409-ad\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n\n<div id=\"kt-info-box_0b2147-37\" class=\"wp-block-kadence-infobox\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-link-wrap kt-blocks-info-box-media-align-top kt-info-halign-left\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-media-container\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-media kt-info-media-animate-none\"><div class=\"kadence-info-box-image-inner-intrisic-container\" style=\"max-width:288px\"><div class=\"kadence-info-box-image-intrisic kt-info-animate-none\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.66666666666666%;height:0;width:840px;max-width:100%\"><div class=\"kadence-info-box-image-inner-intrisic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Katrine-Claassens-2-840x560.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" class=\"kt-info-box-image wp-image-41743 \"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-infobox-textcontent\"><h2 class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-title\">Katrine Claassens<\/h2><p class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-text\"><strong>Artist<\/strong><br><br><em>born in Cape Town, South Africa<\/em><br><em>lives in Montreal, Canada<\/em><br><br>Katrine Claassens&#8217; paintings reflect her interest in climate change, urban ecology, and internet memes. She also works as a science, policy and climate change communicator for universities, think tanks, and governments in South Africa and Canada.<\/p><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-learnmore-wrap\"><a class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-learnmore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.99loop.co.za\/contact\">Inquire About Works<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-2 kadence-column_2567d4-65\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n\n<div id=\"kt-info-box_215859-e8\" class=\"wp-block-kadence-infobox\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-link-wrap kt-blocks-info-box-media-align-top kt-info-halign-left\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-media-container\"><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-media kt-info-media-animate-none\"><div class=\"kadence-info-box-image-inner-intrisic-container\" style=\"max-width:288px\"><div class=\"kadence-info-box-image-intrisic kt-info-animate-none\" style=\"padding-bottom:68.13186813186813%;height:0;width:819px;max-width:100%\"><div class=\"kadence-info-box-image-inner-intrisic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nina-marie-speaker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"558\" class=\"kt-info-box-image wp-image-42276 \"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"kt-infobox-textcontent\"><h2 class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-title\">Nina-Marie Lister<\/h2><p class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-text\"><strong>Urban + Regional Planning Professor and Practitioner<br><\/strong><br><em>lives in Toronto, Canada<br><\/em><br>Nina-Marie Lister is Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor in the School of Urban + Regional Planning at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her work as a researcher and practitioner focuses on the intersection of landscape infrastructure and ecological processes in metropolitan areas.<\/p><div class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-learnmore-wrap\"><a class=\"kt-blocks-info-box-learnmore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/plandform.com\/\">More About Nina-Marie<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Virtual Gallery Production<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This virtual gallery was produced by the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/galleries\/\">Urban Ecological Arts Forum<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;at&nbsp;<em>The Nature of Cities<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curation:<br><strong>Patrick M. Lydon<\/strong><br><strong>Carmen Bouyer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With support from:<br><strong>David Maddox<br>M&#8217;Lisa Colbert<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essay Imagery:<br><strong>Nina-Marie Lister<\/strong> and <strong>Katrine Claassens<\/strong><br>&#8220;Deer street art&#8221; by <strong>Ruben Carrasco<\/strong><br>&#8220;Camera trap&#8221; images courtesy of <strong>ARC Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Film production:<br><strong>Jacob Claassens<\/strong>, with footage from <strong>Koaw Nature<\/strong> and <strong>Patrick Steadman<\/strong>, and music by <strong>Neinzer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gallery Partners<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Katrine Claassens is represented by <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.99loop.co.za\/events\/katrine-claassens\" target=\"_blank\">99 Loop Gallery<\/a><\/strong> in Capetown, South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"support\">Support The Artists During Covid-19<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">During COVID-19, we are bringing to life virtual exhibition spaces for exhibitions that have been canceled due to the closure of cultural facilities. Donations will go: 75% to the artist and 25% to support the continued existence of this gallery space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Your ticket purchase ensures that the artist &#8212; and that this online forum &#8212; can continue to bring ecological arts to the public. Thank you for your donation!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"dbox-donation-button\" style=\"background: #388e3c url(https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png) no-repeat 37px;color: #fff;text-decoration: none;font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;display: inline-block;font-size: 16px;padding: 15px 38px;padding-left: 75px;-webkit-border-radius: 2px;-moz-border-radius: 2px;border-radius: 2px;box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89;text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/claassens_exhibit\">Donate: Buy a &#8216;Virtual Ticket&#8217;<\/a>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone wide\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_cad029-b0\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_cad029-b0\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-2-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right 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kadence-column_acc5bf-05\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n<h2 class=\"artforum has-text-color wp-block-heading\" style=\"color:#ffffff\">Also on View at FRIEC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-medium-font-size\" style=\"color:#ededed\"><strong><strong><strong>Join us as we bring to life interdisciplinary exhibitions that were canceled due to COVID-19.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-rowlayout alignnone wide\"><div id=\"kt-layout-id_f44c36-49\" class=\"kt-row-layout-inner kt-layout-id_f44c36-49\"><div class=\"kt-row-column-wrap kt-has-3-columns kt-gutter-default kt-v-gutter-default kt-row-valign-top kt-row-layout-equal kt-tab-layout-inherit kt-m-colapse-left-to-right kt-mobile-layout-row\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-column inner-column-1 kadence-column_347b5c-02\"><div class=\"kt-inside-inner-col\">\n\n<div id=\"kt-info-box_209689-df\" class=\"wp-block-kadence-infobox\"><a 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