The Circle and The Square is a moving testament to this process that culminated last year when, over three days in September 2016, the community came together to film themselves in the huge empty spaces of Brierfield Mill where many used to work. The production was a distillation of two years of community conversations and collective chanting and singing that ended in the largest gathering in the mill since its doors were closed all as elements of Shapes of Water, Sounds of Hope.

Using the two vocal forms of Shape Note singing and Sufi chanting, the installation includes multi-vocal conversations about the past, present and future of the region following the demise of the textile industry and will be accompanied by presentations of Shape Note, Dhikr, Nasheed and mill ballads.

The Circle & The Square was premiered in Northlight Mill, Pendle in September 2017 and went on to be shown at Sydney Biennale in 2018.