Bonneau-Knight made this work during a year-long residency on a parcel of agricultural land in central Québec, situated on the traditional territory of the W8banaki Nation, the Ndakina. We obtained pedestrian right of way for a year, granting us access to the rural landscape otherwise inaccessible to the general population.

Bound to an old larch tree by a single length of rope wound around each of us, we walked, deepening our acquaintance with the tree and its surroundings, paying homage, creating a non-hierarchical space. Repeating this radial walk weekly throughout the year, we inscribed the trace of this quiet ritual on the ground and in ourselves.

Our circumambulation raised overlapping questions of biodiversity, of inclusion and belonging, of memory, and of land stewardship, all held within the rectangular confines of this neatly identified plot of private land.

Though our right of way has expired, we visit the tree from time to time.