And The Quiet orients viewers to a cyclical way of living, focusing on the ritualistic procession of youth as it unfolds against the backdrop of long-standing tradition, generational learning, and familial gathering places. Within the context of a vast family archive, the experience of adolescence and emerging young adulthood ripples and repeats across generations of family community. Functioning as an archeology of the present, the work documents specific markers of this generation alongside evidence of age, time, and the presence of adulthood. It pays homage to the stability of place and shared family connection through the fleeting but fundamental lens of youthful wonder.

We cleared a path between 
the slipping and this thing
still in the making

one between the summer ferns 
and the mountain laurels, floating

down into the waterway of the old dam
a photograph of me and him 
has come a long way

through the Rickety-Rackety Bridge 
and the looking backwards

each generation walks the long path together
seeking a glimpse through the birches
and their height marked here, on the doorframe 

telling this story as a way of holding
as a way of becoming, together

the new camp, the old camp,
and gentle sky through the open door
I remember

a slow, sacred morning
and the warm light of day 
I remember

names pressed into wooden floorboards
notes to mother, recipes in her handwriting
scrawled just one page back

do you know how words carry 
to one another over the still lake

listen and watch the hills 
reflected there, as you turn back
to the place of beginning 

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