This is my centre, this is my start and this is my end
Then it’s an act of simulation, in assimilation

This is my responsibility

This is not fate
The intensity of my past and the intensity of my present
You, the living embodied recorder of history
I synergise with you
Not to halt
Not to surpass
Yes! Precisely to drift

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Circumambulation is an act of finding the centre or assimilating yourself with the superior. The performance reflects our relationship with universal forces, questioning relativity through a simple act of attaching oneself. The artist attaches herself to a tree with a handmade cotton cord, circumambulates the tree until reaching its proximity and repeating the same outward. The weight of the action depends on the distance and the force between the artist and the tree, held by the cord. It can break at any sudden moment or continue to circumambulate.

The tree cannot forget or dispose of the marks of time and becomes a metaphor for all systems of growth and change – and for the structure of history itself.

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-Vanshika Agrawal