Landscape poems from urban collages in Mari - PB

Abstract

This ethnographic study consists of an urban wandering through the city of Mari, in the Zona da Mata Paraibana. Like many other small cities in the country, Mari is facing urban transformations that involve the loss of traditions and historical landmarks, in addition to the emergence of new constructions aligned with globalized capitalist logic. Urban wandering was used as a methodological resource to capture these changes, using photography, collages and poems to express our perceptions of this metamorphosing space. Three collages and three authorial poems will be presented, which proved to be powerful tools to represent the feelings and sensations experienced in the space, as well as to give visibility to the main aspects identified in the city: transformation, sociability and rurban.