Facing daily bleak news of a world in environmental and pandemic crisis, we increasingly find ourselves with little agency, distanced from places and people we love, our identity eroded along the way. The artefacts proposed are the culmination of a 7 year practice-based doctoral research project, exploring processes that disrupt and force a slowness on my sensing body as a way to enable what Donna Haraway calls ‘reading with our senses attuned to stories told in otherwise muted registers’. The artistic processes aim to offer other embodied ways of knowing and being in a place, specifically of tuning into the everyday fleeting and often overlooked materials in the form of post-industrial decay and human debris. The artworks that emerge are fragile and like my walking body and our landscapes in a state of flux, they crumble and curl, they offer up alternative records of what it is to embody a place in all of its entangled complexities, navigating through them at a time of deep uncertainty.