Gas fracking began to overrun—and overturn—our community two years ago. Two friends of my husband Andy Gardner and me, Rodrica Tilley and Michael Poster, live just outside the town of Montrose, PA. They were shocked and deeply saddened when bulldozers and other Earth-moving equipment showed up on the land next to theirs and started tearing down all the trees to make room for a new business that would rent equipment to the gas drilling industry. Roddie and Michael and their daughter Zoe loved that land and its wildness, including foxes, deer, the frogs who sang in the springtime in seasonal pools, and the many birds.

We spent time on that land, paying attention to the resilience of the plants as they rush to grow in new spaces and even the presence of birds nesting in the verges where there are still trees. We created a RadJoy Bird out of the stones that were upturned in the destruction of the woods.