This work is concerned with socio-political and geographic relationships rooted in historic displacement. This kettle drum or timpani was sourced from Plymouth, MA from a stranger using the drum for ornamental home decor. The cow rumen acting as a growth and countering force of the drum was sourced from Connecticut through an enduring relationship between the artist and a butcher interested in a waste averse approach to cattle rearing and processing. The simple acquisition of these materials and objects conjures questions regarding possession, invisible labor, and conflict as the binding tension between these two forms.