We built our home on top and within the surface layer of the earth; we shape the landscape and re-shape it again and again. Soils have been sealed for commute route and infrastructure in the expansion of the urbanisation. On the risk of other species’ habitats, we re-fill the land with industrial waste. Sometimes, we tend to ignore that what has been buried in the land will eventually form the soil of the future. Human activities are strongly affecting the soil formations, and this has become the reason why I choose to gather the soil from the Vuossari’s construction site. The impression of the place was noted as follows:

With permission from the construction site manager, my bare hand, helmet, a shiny reflective jacket and protection shoes, I entered the construction site in Vuosaari (Figure 3). It was a rainy day, surrounded by heavy machinery, an excavator, and piles of soils, stones and cements. The sound of the machine intensely uncovered the ground. My feet were trapped in the muddy earth while I walked. I saw the layers of the earth formed by soil; I saw the concrete structure that seals them alongside. (Extract from working diary, 2 October 2019)

During my visit, the people from the construction site told me that the place used to be a dump for different kinds of industrial waste and landfill. Therefore, in this case, the building company has taken the responsibility to re-fill it with the clean soil. To me, the soils gathered from the construction site implicated the human–soil relations on the way we live based-on the land-take practice in which reflect the ways we built, fill, and seal the soil.