terra toxicus

By studying the umwelten, or subjective experiences, of several nonhuman species threatened by their proximity to a mountaintop removal mine, an initial human codesigner and new machine learning entity develop the agency to manipulate the abandoned manufactured landscape towards the benefits of these species, making computationally-assisted interspecies empathy possible. In the now-flattened centers of the lost mountains, monuments to new “found” geological strata are restorative for the eco-geo-logical state of the site, promoting healing from the warping of time/sectional developments of geology wrought by the near-instantaneous blasting of the mountain peaks.