“How do we begin to practice an alternative relationship with our natural ecosystem, one based on consent rather than control and exchange rather than usage? Tender Data is a yearlong project of reimagination through frameworks new and ancient, leaning into organism-scale interactions as building blocks toward interspecies empathy. Through AR filters and virtual mini-experiments, I invite the public to join me in deconstructing the ‘usefulness’ of a plant, tapping into fungi-powered ‘social media’, and co-creating rituals as a companion species, as we lay our blessings as playful ancestors of the future.”