Everything runs in a circular motion, according to the musician Donovon.

This series of epigrammatic, meditative accounts focuses on the concept of “circumambulation,” both as a spiritual practice and as a regular dimension of daily life. Circumambulation, which involves walking around a sacred object, is an essential aspect of Buddhist rituals (and other Eastern and Western religious traditions). It can also contain broader, more ordinary meanings. The first in the series (combining writing and documentary film), Moon Peak, was already completed some time ago; for the second, Hellbender, the writing and filming are finished, with editing to be accomplished over the summer; the third, Transmigration, both writing and filming are well underway. The scaffolding for the fourth and final in this series of short documentaries, Isle of Hope, is now in design.

For all sections of the Circumambulation Series, I seek to discover a context for experiencing the extraordinary within the ordinary, or what Virginia Woolf refers to as “moments of being” resulting from instances
of shock, discovery, or revelation.