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This practice-led PhD explores how the materiality of post-industrial landscapes may be used to deconstruct and reconstitute female subjectivity. Using visual and linguistic language associated with the extraction of land, this research refers to Robert Smithson’s site / nonsite method to test out ways of revisioning the substance of female identity, and to subvert humanism, colonialism and capitalism as entwined systems that continue to frame, narrate and exclude human and non-human bodies. Photogrammetry, video editing and 3D modelling techniques are combined with sculptural, sound, performance and photographic processes to remap, embody and entangle the material strata of disrupted natural landscapes. Mining and quarrying terminology is used to describe the psychological impacts of capitalism, and the visual methods employed investigate a posthuman, symbiotic re-connection with the organic, utilising technology away from the dominating hold of extractive capitalism.