Description
The Original
Confluence by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media photography from the Misrememberings series. I created this piece using my original photography that has not been digitally altered, acrylic medium and gold.
The framed piece measures 25×26.5″. Shipping will be calculated based on location. Please note that colours and contrast vary between different monitors. The colours may not match your monitor’s display exactly. Additionally, copyright of my artwork does not transfer with purchase.
The Inspiration for Confluence by Robin Rivers
Memory and time fragment, reconstructing themselves into spaces that live vividly in our experience, even when they are not a faithful representation of the original. That is the territory the Misrememberings series explores.
Confluence layers two images I shot along the river outside the village of Orquevaux in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France — a place where local legend holds that the water is fed by a healing spring. There is something that has always moved quietly here, beneath the surface of the ordinary. I hand-treated each photograph with acrylic medium and gold before collaging them together — to honour what moves between people when no one is watching.
A confluence is where two currents meet — not by accident, but because the land itself has always been drawing them toward each other. The forces working to keep them apart are visible and loud. What works to bring them together is subtler, older, running underneath everything like water through limestone — unhurried, inevitable.
The Artist
Robin Rivers works across photography, collage, and text to recover the lives of women the historical record left out, overlooked, or misremembered—not as reconstruction, but as retrieval.
That work takes shape in the material each inquiry calls for: specific landscapes she photographs again and again, found photographs, writing, and archival fragments. The result sits deliberately between evidence and imagination: precise about sources while making room for intimacy, longing, and the gaps scholarship alone cannot fill. Robin creates all pieces at Studio Albertine in Vancouver, Canada—on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. This includes the territories of the xĘ·məθkwÉ™yĚ“É™m (Musqueam), SkwxwĂş7mesh (Squamish), and SÉ™lĚ“ĂlwÉ™taĘ”/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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