The side-project of Qualia
《感質》的前置計畫
In the moringa project, I grow three trees successfully in the end, one died under the pressure of high anticipation in the very early days. The process told me many stories, and the most important information for me was "individuality" comes from nature, and we human beings are part of nature as well. However, humans think of controlling things too much and often forget to respect nature.
From observing those trees, I found every creature has its will, even though I could control the condition for growing, but it's the plants decide how to grow, and at some point, they might decide to die.
Moringa is a kind of tough plant. I could see those three trees were not always in a good shape, but they keep fighting and survive till the departure day. Even growing together, they have different pacing and state, and they always affect each other: to get sick together, sometimes one is better, one is worse, and to recover together.
However, when the trees move to the countryside, no one takes care of them or gives them attention anymore, and they grow even better. Then, I realize they just need to be in the better nature: with outside sunlight, rain...etc. not our human beings' attention.
How you would grow, I would never control. Individuality is for respect, not necessarily to understand, or to control.
Thank you for those fighters.
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在這個種樹計畫中，我成功讓三顆種子成長，而有一株在非常早期眾所期待的壓力下夭折了。這個過程告訴了我很多故事，對我來說最重要的信息是“獨特性”來自自然，而我們人類也是自然的一部分。 然而，人類試著控制太多事物，而常常忘記尊重自然。
通過觀察那些樹，我發現每一個生物都有它的意志，雖然我可以控制成長的條件，但最終還是由植物決定如何生長，並且在某個時間點，有部分植物可能會決定死亡。
辣木是一種堅韌的植物。 我看得出來那三棵樹的狀態並不總是很好，但它們一直在戰鬥，一直活到離開的那一天。 即使一起成長，他們的節奏和狀態也不同，總是相互影響：一起生病，有時一個較好，一個較壞，但總是一起康復。
但是，當這些樹搬到鄉下後，就沒有人照顧或關心了，它們反而開始長得更好。 然後，我意識到他們只需要處於更好的自然環境中：有外面的陽光、雨水……等等。 而不是我們人類的注意力。
你會如何成長，我永遠無法控制。 個體性是為了尊重，不一定是為了理解，也不一定是為了控制。
感謝這些鬥士們。