An evolving multimedia project exploring memory, family history, identity, and the stories we carry.
Inherited Quiet began with a simple question: What happens when the people who carried your family stories are no longer here to tell them?
Following the passing of my grandmother in late 2025, I found myself reflecting on the people who shaped my life and the histories that seemed to disappear alongside them. As I looked deeper into my family tree, I realized how much had been lost through grief, silence, migration, addiction, trauma, and time.
My maternal family is Six Nations Mohawk, Turtle Clan, and my great-grandmother was a residential school survivor. My family history also includes English and Hungarian immigrant roots. My grandfather died when my mother was young, and my father died when I was a child. With their passing came the loss of stories, traditions, photographs, relationships, and cultural knowledge that can never be fully recovered.
Rather than searching for definitive answers, Inherited Quiet is an exploration of those absences.
The project combines research, personal writing, photography, painting, mixed media, archival material, and experimentation to investigate themes of memory, intergenerational trauma, resilience, cultural identity, grief, belonging, and the emotional landscapes we inherit from those who came before us.
While the final form of this work is still emerging, the process itself has become an important part of the project. Through conversations with family members, archival research, creative experimentation, and reflection, I hope to better understand both where I come from and how those histories continue to shape my own life.
Inherited Quiet was supported in its early research phase through a Pat the Dog Theatre Creation Microgrant, which allowed me to begin gathering stories, reviewing family photographs and journals, and developing the ideas that have since grown into this multidisciplinary project.
This page will continue to evolve alongside the work, documenting the research, experiments, discoveries, and questions that shape the journey.
