We Were Round considers its environment as a hortus conclusus­­­­—an enclosed garden, perhaps sitting on the outer edge of a current, an inert space, or at least an eddy. The paradise garden may be one of the earliest human fictions, predating and playing a central role in the foundations of many monotheistic religions. Its ubiquity is only matched by its sui generis nature—the idea that it is unique and closed upon all else, for one or two alone, and that we would not even wish to think outside of it. It’s akin to the paradoxical ability to live in your mind and yet turn your mind inside out—there is nothing here to touch that is not it itself….

We Were Round is a collaboration between artist Honor Hamlet, and writer Cameron Ah Loo-Matamua.

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