Of Quiet Birds, 2018 - ongoing
I’ve known Alice her entire life. Our parents grew up together and raised our families equally as close. Together as children, we watched as two unrelated cancers slowly took away her eldest sister and then her mother. I saw her descend into silence and then years later explode in expression.
We were bound by trauma as children and now as women, life has brought distance between us. Yet still I see myself in Alice; a representation of thousands of other young people jostling amongst the modern day, while carrying the past on their backs.
