Within the rectangular layout of the gallery, across its uniformly proportioned walls and over the linear grid of beige-white ceramic tiles, Klasja Habjan introduces us to the visual poetics of her new series, The Circle. In this body of work, she steps away from her primary medium of expression, illustration, moving toward painting, here applied to ceramic tiles framed within six individual panels that interact with one another to form a cohesive whole.

It all begins with a twelve-line poem authored by Klasja herself, which speaks of the love between a young girl and her dog (and vice versa), of the transience and fragility of life, and of the realization that our time in this world is cyclical and repetitive. Over time, it is only our roles and external forms that undergo change, while the core of our mutual respect and bond remains fundamentally unaltered.

Many learned thinkers would have something to say about this fluctuation of life: most famously the Greek philosopher Heraclitus…