In his Second Treatise of 1690, John Locke spelled out the rationale for the appropriation of common land, stating that “as much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of, so much is his property.” For the Enlightenment political theorist, it was exploitation of the soil that justified the individual right to own land, expropriating the commons and subjugating colonial wastelands. Such codifications of the extractivist approach to the soil laid the ground for the agrarian transformations of carbon modernity, which treated it as a passive recipient of chemical inputs for monocultural crops. As climate breakdown tests the ecological limits of heavy agriculture, how have artists exposed the entwined colonial and environmental histories of land and proposed ecocentric practices based on more-than-human comradeship and care?