This narrative essay weaves memory, ecology and philosophical questioning to explore relationality. It alternately expands into fractal possibilities of selfhood and contracts to the fine scale of microbial relations, returning periodically to ground the reader in acts of tending and attending to soil, plants and compost. The piece centres soil not only as metaphor but as a real vehicle for interconnection by considering how all beings – including soil – are composed of relationships, including dynamic microbial communities. © 2026 Public Access and the authors and artists. Published by Intellect Ltd
Kim Melton (Wed,) studied this question.