This project looks at naivety as a ‘decolonial atmosphere’. Through the lens of a cicada, a creature that spends most of its life underground, I was provoked by the idea of being undeveloped, confused or naive as a way to approach life and work. Being open to, and accepting ‘youth’ or immaturity as a method of connecting and learning. My video reflects this idea by attempting to chain together the feelings and atmospheres of 3 characters: myself, a cicada and a Half City (referenced in Il Calvino’s canonical Invisible Cities). Firstly, the Half City that Calvino writes of humorously depicts the solid, sophisticated, reliable city elements such as the banks, as an ephemeral entity, easily dismantled and removed. On the other hand, the rollercoasters and rickety carnival suburbs are everlasting and permanent. Looking at myself, the film shows my feelings of immaturity, naivety, conflict, and regression that I experienced in the process of applying for a position at the college and attending it. Videos of myself in this state are compared to the lifecycle of the cicada. Like the Half Cities, their ‘permanent’ state, or the one they spend the most time in, is the nymph state. The state of immaturity, of being underground, not seeing the world for its entirety. Like myself, moments of knowing, of being sure, of being solid are fleeting. While all three characters share the screen together, only one is uncomfortable with this state.