Anna Bierler (Earth, 1989) is interested in approaching different notions of interconnectedness, and exploring the possibilities of grounding ourselves on unsolid grounds. Looking through ecological frameworks as means of collaboration and coexistence while tending to affective spaces, Bierler often works collectively in creating shared rituals, narrations, and experiences. The installation, Softer Marks, explores softness and deceleration in an attempt to attune our human bodies to the multitude of lithic bodies around us—amplifying the stories that stones tell. Softer Marks exists in layers of sediment, a support structure opening the ground for conversation, gathering, relating, sharing, a testing site to practice leaving softer marks.