I found myself becoming materially bound to the site with each visit. It became a space in which I could explore my changing subjectivity as a new mother and a birthing body through the biological reclamation of the cut rock. I considered the language of the quarried geology of the land – extraction, aggregate, strata, reclamation – as a metaphorical method in which to excavate and redefine my female subjectivity. Through encountering as a core method, the site became part of my body, and I became part of it. Over time, through processes of reflection, interaction, experimentation and stillness, I developed a text-based narrative in which I am also reclaimed by the moss colony. My destabilised and evolving subjectivity as a birthing body became a fissure in which the resilience of the moss could thrive; and thus it not only worked to decolonise and repair the post-industrial site of the quarry, but also my cultural body through an deep sense of material entanglement. It is in this site that I was irreversibly and profoundly reclaimed as a subject. Thus, the process of building a material relationship with this living colony worked to reclaim my culturally-imposed gender through physical contact and a process of being-with and learning-from, reconnecting my living entity as a materially entangled one.