It is not surprising to find residues of our epoch – obsolete or abandoned things – as we harvest from the ground the materials we need in order to create. There, we also encounter the evidence of a loss, an erasure. Although remediating the situation seems difficult to envisage, it is possible, through art, to slow down and become aware of zones marked by this absence. By manipulating and observing the trajectories and temporalities embedded in the materials that immediately surround us – whether a bead, a sprig of a grass labelled as a weed, or a bit of Styrofoam pulled from the edge of a stream – it becomes conceivable to glimpse the close connections that link all earthly matter, and to become aware of our own entanglement with it.