Sandbags are the vernacular for coercive compliance. This utility object both conceals the impact of flood from avoidable environmental devastation and lulls us into acceptance of continued environmental harm through progress. The pervasive use of the sandbag reveals a longer history of environmental alteration by deteriorating wetlands, decrease of native plant habitats, and continual pollution. In this work, acts of kindness and care engender a duty of attention needed to imagine kinship with the current and future environment. I work between still and moving image, prairie-toned sandbags, and text to create a polytemporal sense of narrative to disentangle our compliance with carelessness. (Project 2019- present