Divination (near QiMing temple) is a site-specific response that takes place in a small room in an old army barracks adjacent to Qi Ming Temple, Xiamen, China. The action deliberately unfolds at the same time as the Buddhist nuns in the convent temple perform their daily chanting ritual. The objects Thomas uses in this work are two small ceramic clay teacups, purchased in Xiamen. These two things, once forged from the same clay, now make piercing screeches and scraping noises as their surfaces are forced together by the artist’s frenetically circling hands. This exhaustive and somehow inconclusive act halts to a stop when the teacups finally meet as if momentarily whole. Out of breath the artist pauses whilst the chanting of the Buddhist nuns in the building next door is heard, their repetitive gong signifying both the end of their ritual and the action of the artist. Commissioned as part of ‘Let’s see what happens…’ an exchange project and exhibition with artists from Wales and China, curated by Karen MacKinnon.