Working with ink at the edge of the tide so it can leave its traces is a way of intra-acting with the elements and allowing materials to speak with their own mighty voices and visualising the 'Eternal Now' Karen Barad: Mattering is substance in its iterative intra-active becoming—not a thing, but a doing, a congealing of agency. Grant Kester: Sacrifice autonomy in order to imaginatively inhabit, learn from and be transformed by another subject’s material condition or action. (Dialogical Aesthetics: A Critical Framework For Littoral Art) Kitaro Nishida: The “now” that sees this flow can be regarded as eternity.The point of present that draws all instances of the past and future into itself, that is, towards a concentration of past knowledge and future prediction.