The photographic series, Relational Gesture, explores fluid boundaries through an arrangement of delicate, translucent rice-paper cuticle forms. The arrangements evoke a sense of gathering, proximity and interdependence. Some forms appear to lean towards one another, suggesting gestures of support and quiet intimacy. The diaphanous surfaces create a fragile threshold between interior and exterior, presence and absence, containment and permeability. The translucency of their softening edges suggests a gradual dissolution of separateness, where the notion of an independent self gives way to an awareness of relational existence.  The responsive materiality of rice paper becomes a metaphor for the body's continual negotiation of its boundaries with the world. Drawing on ideas of affect, inter-being and material entanglement, the works consider intimacy as diadermic encounter, through which we are affected and transformed. They invite a closeness with vulnerability, where thinning skin opens possibilities for connection and transformation.