The legacy extraction industry has created for coal is that of its final, conventional, and profitable use. This body of work is focused on pushing past this representation and reframing how coal is remembered. I want to give life to what is perceived as an inanimate commodity and come closer to the reality of coal. By expanding views on coal to its role in carbon and toxin capture, not just release, how its deposits touch land everywhere, and as a result, the artistic and magical role it has played in various cultures, we can redefine coal beyond the power sector, and see it not as a commodity waiting for our use, but a protector of the world. This exploration, in tandem with showing the consequences of human hubris against it, rejects a single narrative of what coal is or can be. Through this investigation, I have started to break from the lone representation of coal, as seen in our current socio-political climate of regulation vs deregulation. Instead of only displaying the gaping wound that was left by industry, these pieces strive to bring us closer to healing our relationship with that material and, beyond that, our relationship with the Earth.