Andromeda and the Milky Way 2021) was a 4.5-hour live performance in a temporary exhibition space in Sydney, Australia. The action resulted in a large-scale drawing on paper, a single-channel video, and a jar of charcoal — the residue accumulated through the performance.

Two performers, dressed in black, moved repeatedly across a field of white paper. Their trajectories were drawn directly onto the surface in charcoal, forming orbital paths that gradually built into a dense field of marks. The drawing emerged through duration, repetition, and proximity.

The work takes its title from the projected merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies — an event predicted to occur in approximately four billion years. Although the two galaxies will eventually coalesce, the probability of individual stars or planets colliding is extremely small. This paradox — convergence without impact — became a structural framework for the performance.

Rather than illustrating the cosmos, the work translates astronomical movement into embodied action. The performers trace arcs of approach and divergence, proximity and withdrawal. What accumulates on the paper is not an image of galaxies, but a record of duration, friction and relation.

As a moving image, the video documents the drawing as a temporal event. As an object, the jar of charcoal preserves what was worn down in the process. Together, these elements position drawing as both action and aftermath.