MAINTENANCE AS ECOLOGICAL PRACTICE — Ecology · Care · Infrastructure · Landscape. Ecological knowledge becomes operational through repeated acts of care, repair, seasonal adjustment and attention, because these practices expose dependencies that remain less visible in one-off interventions.

 Subtraction Can Produce Presence provides the first material test through Kingdom Series, where a tiny geometric subtraction in moss and leaves is quickly reworked by fungi, weather and seasonal growth; the intervention is deliberately minor, and ecological change remains visible through what happens after the initial gesture · ClimateTranslation · https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20356898 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/kingdom-series-subtractions-as.html. Botany Can Become an Urban Method provides the second through LA Botanica 2021, where botanical material and urban observation are organised through environmental time, allowing growth, weather and transformation to become part of the field record · SOCIOPLASTICS-2728 · MaintenanceReturn · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2021/12/labotanica2021.html. These works gain density across the field through Relational Diffusor · SOCIOPLASTICS-160 · https://freshmuseum.blogspot.com/2026/01/more-protein-relational-diffusor-for.html; Collective Life Is a Metabolic System · SOCIOPLASTICS-8952 · https://tomototomoto.blogspot.com/2026/07/collective-life-is-metabolic-system.html; Kaplan — Restorative Benefits · SOCIOPLASTICS-6510 · https://holaverdeurbano.blogspot.com/2026/07/kaplan-s-1995-restorative-benefits-of.html; Lepecki — Dance and Exhausted Movement · SOCIOPLASTICS-4151 · https://artnations.blogspot.com/2026/05/lepecki-2006-exhausting-dance.html; Copos 490 — Neptun Duna Komarno Komarom 2015 · SOCIOPLASTICS-4561 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLI-LbtDDW; Language Carries the Weight of Its Own Infrastructure · SOCIOPLASTICS-2305 · https://otracapa.blogspot.com/2026/04/socioplastics-2305-language-carries.html; Ricardo de Castro — Environmental Psychology · SOCIOPLASTICS-4312 · https://psicologiaambientalhoy.blogspot.com/2011/06/ricardo-de-castro.html; Infrastructure Rather Than Content · SOCIOPLASTICS-2295 · https://socioplastics.blogspot.com/2026/04/infrastructure-rather-than-content.html; EpistemicLatency and Structural Delay · SOCIOPLASTICS-4804 · https://ciudadlista.blogspot.com/2026/06/epistemiclatency-and.html; The Conventional Index as Epistemological Space · SOCIOPLASTICS-2147 · https://artnations.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-index-has-conventionally-occupied.html; Road to Restoration 027 — Tree · SOCIOPLASTICS-6827 · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qvwl4P51Ak; and Socioplastics at the Threshold of 2026 · SOCIOPLASTICS-258 · https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/02/socioplastics-at-threshold-of-2026.html. Across these returns, Kingdom Series and LA Botanica 2021 provide the primary evidence: one records ecological change through a deliberately minimal intervention and its subsequent transformation, while the other treats botanical processes and environmental time as material for sustained urban observation. The surrounding traces extend that operation through restoration, metabolism, environmental psychology, infrastructure and delayed change, establishing maintenance as a practical mode through which ecological interdependence can be observed and acted upon.