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The Round is an immersive sound and light sculpture that reflects the artists' shared interest in materiality and sensorial experience. A column of light revolves gently inside a patchworked curtain of second-hand sheets – a reference to the Korean practice of jogakbo, which uses leftover fabric scraps to make new textiles. The rotating light sits on top of a platter, like a large-scale turntable, and emits rhythmic flashes. Steven and John wanted to create an environment where people could come and have nothing demanded of them. The title points to embodied forms of existence, recalling a common style of group singing: a round, or perpetual canon. The work prompts us to think about cycles of voices, as well as other expansive cyclical forms: time, knowledge and planetary systems. Steven and John draw attention to individual and collective rhythms of the body to create an environment that might inspire something communal to take place.