In the Charles Addams Fine Arts Gallery one December night, a six-minute video projected onto one wall showed people on the Tibetan pilgrimage journey from small villages to religious sites in the city of Lhasa. The quiet and reflective piece, showing people walking and prostrating themselves across icy, unforgiving terrain, was created for the fall course Documentary Ethnography for Museums and Exhibitions.

Tairan Hao, a second-year Master of Fine Arts student working in video installations and new media art, says he was inspired to create this piece by a visit to Tibet five years ago, when he saw a crowd
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