Penny Dunstan’s PhD research examined land rehabilitation at Rix’s Creek mine site through the multiple lenses of soil science, land reconstruction, social licence to operate, and fine art. Her art practice invites the land to represent itself through multidisciplinary techniques: making gallery-based work with Hunter Valley topsoils and anthroposols; long exposure, limited inference, analogue photography in situ; and a writing practice that acknowledges the old ways on Wonnaura Country. Currently she is working with 3D printing earth bowls to explore ideas of cultural and deep time.