procession

Procession (Latin procedere, to go forward): rooms walked one after another at the walker's own pace. Not a grid, which says "choose quickly"; not a carousel, which says "keep moving"; a procession says "dwell here." As a shape: sections become decks, and within a deck the room in view comes to rest at the centre of the view and the rooms already walked lift upward above it — smaller, dimmer, still there, at most a few deep — until the deck is complete and the corridor holds a breath, the dwell, before the next section. The order is the declaration's and never a rank; the corridor cannot see the reader; every room is a landmark; a room without a window keeps its sigil; and under reduced motion the settle is identity. The dress owns every pixel. The shape and the numbers are the water's.