Circumambulation en Fugue transforms the gallery into a site of frantic ritual. My background is rooted in the austere, 'low-church' traditions of rural Lutheranism; this work engages with the 'high-church' and ancient practice of sacred circumambulation. The Kaaba and its black stone and the Indic Pradakshina—the act of circling an object of power to define its sanctity.

'‘Fugue' references the musical structure of complex, overlapping themes, but also the fugue state—being 'on the run' or in flight. Not merely circling, but in desperate pursuit of spiritual and philosophical mooring. The chair remains stationary and indifferent, while audible exhaustion—the sound of the 'fugitive'—marks the struggle to find a stable center.