Ephemeral Landscape was constructed from paper cutouts that silhouette the prairie roots that I gathered and photographed under a microscope in the Agronomy department at Iowa State University. The micro scale of the roots was overlaid on the macro scale of the city to emphasize their coexistence and demonstrate that the perception of scale is relative. Its meshwork of roots serve as a reminder that life is an entanglement of connections, which may be stabilizing and nurturing in ways that we do not always see, or touch directly, or recognize because they are strange, or hidden, or too small (or too large).