Confluence is a series of diptychs that explore moments of union and separation through ink and paper. Two sheets are placed side by side, their edges touching. Ink is poured onto each sheet and, as they are gently moved, the pools begin to travel across the surface toward one another. At the moment the ink meets at the junction between the sheets, they are drawn apart.

As the ink dries and contracts, it reshapes the surface of the paper, leaving each sheet marked and shaped by a shared event. The two forms remain intrinsically linked, yet physically separate—each carrying the trace of a moment of convergence that cannot be sustained.

Australian poet Carol Jenkins writes:

“… we might call them pour-spills, flow-mills, ink-wells or puddle-pours of Sumi ink. Each of the pair flows away and into the other, making conversations that come up to the brink, to an edge. They nudge, in a calculating way, at limits. Is the auto-sheen gloss of Sumi ink a hypnotic Rorschach test, is each pair with their uneven pattern perhaps a nod at the asymmetries of marriage? They suggest worm holes, having the absolute blackness of nothingness, but without the existential angst that black holes evoke.” (Read Carol Jenkins’ essay here).