Throughout my career, I have used art to advocate for sustainability, habitats, animals, and the communities who live with them, especially as related to a lack of female decision-making opportunities, positions of power, and the ability to act. It is at the intersection of creativity and environmental anthropology that I negotiate a new ethics of care that embraces and celebrates all of our interactions on our one and only planet. Both elephants and humans originated in Africa; they have roamed the earth together for nearly 200,000 years. Elephants and humans share a mutual ecology shaped by limited resources and entangled structures of power. Across Southeast Asia and Africa, communities are experiencing human-elephant conflict, contributing to a major decline in elephant populations and growing anger from their human counterparts. Of critical importance is the role of women in the protection and conservation of elephants, which can lead to female empowerment and employment. As a gendered division of labor places women in close contact with elephants, we see the interactions of two matriarchies struggling to provide for and protect their families, which inspired this work.