"Experimenting with how we might describe Anthropocentric changes to the landscape - specifically places we are from, and how extractive practices deplete the living systems that unconsciously inform the ways in which we define ourselves and our communities. When we've depleted all potential resources from the land, what remains, who remains? I selected the Appalachian Trail birdsong field recording because I've lived in the Southern Appalachian mountains, and it is without a doubt my favorite place on earth. The smell and sound of the mountains tell me when I am home. These mountains continue to be under ecological threat due to mountaintop removal, natural gas pipelines, fracking, coal ash ponds, and chemical spills which are devastating to rivers, biodiversity and human health. Despite the best efforts of countless activists over hundreds of years our land and communities are violated as the protection and conservation work enacted in Appalachia cont
