My partner loves photographing urban wildlife — pigeons, rats, weeds growing through sidewalks — and calls it their nature practice, but when they show me their pictures I feel nothing and wonder if we're just both desperately trying to make peace with living somewhere that isn't actually livable.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are confronting whether their different approaches to urban nature represent genuine connection or shared delusion.
“Where Are You with Urban nature — finding it in cities?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.