'Plant blindness' describes 'the inability to see or notice the plants in one’s own environment' (Schussler and Wandersee). In the context of climate change, under-appreciation of nature leads to grave consequences, where there seems to be no place for nature in its free, 'untamed' version in the industrialized and concrete world - 'plant blindness leads to extinction blindness' (Affifi). In my photographic research, I overcome my own plant blindness and explore the life of plants as shaped by humans - house plants, botanical garden plants, plants in the streets and in forests. I am interested in the commodification of nature, in how we shape it and connect with it, finding the impact of our socioeconomic status on the plants around us. A plant becomes a companion, a shelter or is a mere decoration, a commodity.

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