Exploring the history of colonization, both by and on Portugal, as represented by its flora, I used software to laser-cut into my handmade, laminated natural materials, highlighting the use of the hand in contrast with mechanized labor. Using source imagery I found from the Ethnographic Museum of Messejana, Portugal, during my art residency at Buinho, I laser-cut: images of boats on laminated Bougainvillea petals and watermelon peels; images of Arabic writings on stone tablets onto laminated orange and lemon peels; images of the ocean seen in children’s books onto cantaloupe peels; images of colonial lace patterns onto laminated Bougainvillea petals. By integrating the selected imagery with the chosen material, I aim to connect matter, territory, nature, technology, and history into cryptic symbols to reveal that even the simplest materials and contemporary technological means of production have origins in events that forever reshaped the local terrain and the present. In creating work that clearly links the past to the present, I question historical colonization and forge links to the present to encourage conversations about post-colonization and neo-colonization, promoting a dialogue and a critical view of our current globalized world.