

Inside a crematorium, one enormous circular opening cut clean through the wall is cut through a near-black wall, its curve sweeping across the frame and cropped by two edges. The chamber beyond is flooded in burgundy, deep and warm, the whole volume carrying its own bounced colour with the form read through subtle value shifts alone, and the inner face of the aperture brightest where it turns. A shallow arc of wide steps climbs inside it. One figure alone stands in profile on the steps, small, in a long dark garment. The surround is tinted with the same colour rather than neutral. the hue runs over the floor, the walls and the ceiling of the chamber as one continuous surface. Clean, the surfaces smooth, the one optical event a soft halo around each lit source. Solemn and theatrical, a threshold somebody has been summoned to.