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 As I talked to a friend about my aim to deal with the slime mold in a non-manipulative way, they stressed that any type of Bioart, especially if I am bringing the living matter to the lab or to my house, implies in manipulating the media I am working with. They said that better than avoiding manipulation it would be interesting to work with a symbiotic approach, understanding not just the slime mold's agency on me but also mine on it.
+===Phase 3: Gestation===
+Coming back to the very first observation when my slime mold didn't follow the oat path I built, I remembered how much I could relate it to my relation with my mother. In many aspects I feel didn't follow the path that she wanted me to and that she put so much effort on to. I grew up following another way.
+It was somehow frustrating to me, seeing my slime mold going the other way because I was so sure that the food path would be the best one to follow. It was frustrating because I couldn't understand and also we couldn't talk - we don't speak the same language.
+But why did I have this caring feeling about a being that I reproduced in a lab?
+I could see some colleagues talking in such a distant position about our experiments, having many ideas on how to work with them but I could only feel this curiosity to understand the relation I stablished with my "babies" (I couldn't help referring to them like this).
+Could this maternal bond be my subject to study?
+===Phase 4: Giving birth and caring===