{"id":743,"date":"2018-09-28T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T05:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/?p=743"},"modified":"2018-12-09T04:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T11:35:30","slug":"an-exercise-in-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/2018\/09\/28\/an-exercise-in-seeing\/","title":{"rendered":"4- An exercise in Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"
(images that come after the poem are intentional. I would like to invite readers to read the text first, see the images, and reflect on the fight between nature and capitalism as these were what I reflected on while \"exercising my eyes to see\" while on a walk)<\/pre>\n
Symmetry and perfection.<\/p>\n
Posts lined up with equal spacing; support for the newly built building is now being taken down.<\/p>\n
Lines.<\/p>\n
Shadow lines, and (im)perfect seating spots.<\/p>\n
Imperfect? Round.<\/p>\n
Round balls that make no sense as to why they are there.<\/p>\n
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Oh, what’s that?\u00a0 Thank God for trees and nature.<\/p>\n
Symmetrical,\u00a0<\/em>asymmetrical, <\/em><\/p>\n
organised, messy,<\/em><\/p>\n
crunchy, soft, <\/em><\/p>\n
a whole, with holes,<\/em><\/p>\n
shadow, no shadow.<\/em><\/p>\n
 <\/p>\n
Oh, but what is that again?<\/p>\n
More lines. More symmetry. More “perfection”.<\/p>\n
Walmart.<\/p>\n
 <\/p>\n
Nature vs corporation, a monopoly.<\/p>\n
Who’s trying to outwin who?<\/p>\n
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(images that come after the poem are intentional. I would like to invite readers to read the text first, see the images, and reflect on the fight between nature and capitalism as these were what I reflected on while “exercising my eyes to see” while on a walk) Symmetry and perfection. Posts lined up with … Continue reading 4- An exercise in Seeing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/faithdawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}