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"The circle: microscopic or telescopic, either way it designates a fixed-upon spot that needs her focus or a detail of something that extends and may be unbounded."

The round framing device is a graphic lasso, holding the eye’s attention and concentration on a particular, magnified visual zone. That steady zone is a porthole onto shapes swimming in a larger sea—landscape or vortex. On parade, a world passes by in front of these unblinking oculi. We always only see a small part of something larger. Or, alternately, the circle bounds an experiment in growth like a petri dish, a …