Cary Ostrie

In a fugue, a single melody, the subject, is introduced by one voice and then taken up, imitated and woven together by others. In Fugue No. 01, the subject is a dark circle. No disc can hold it alone: each carries only half, and the circle appears only where two discs meet. Passed from voice to voice across sixteen discs, sometimes mirrored, sometimes overlapping, the constrained shapes and patterns give rise to something beautiful and unexpected.