Roots of the City

A city shaped by rigid lines, where trees are assigned fixed roles as decorative elements within impoverished landscapes. Yet their roots insist otherwise—expanding beyond imposed limits, they fracture the geometry of urban planning. Nature disregards containment, infiltrating cracks, lifting concrete, breaking through asphalt. These gestures mark a quiet resistance, an organic assertion that unsettles the order of the constructed. In the midst of a city designed to dominate, the wild leaves its trace—unruly, persistent, and undeniably present.