Peg
Shaw

The Noisiest Years of Silence

Video/Sound/Photography installation with Archival Pigment Prints
Video Sample: https://youtu.be/v9F-2LKyIfI
Installation: https://youtu.be/GgszUwXhVMg


"Be safe. Stay home. The streets are empty. Neighbors sing from balconies. Sew masks and think of loved ones. Birdsongs in the morning. > 600,000 dead and rising. They killed her. Killed him. 9 mins 26 secs. Protestors beaten. Patients lay in tents. No one can breathe. > The wildflowers are blooming. I found an oriole's nest - a stunning weave of grass and tinsel. The full moon is beautiful. So quiet here."

Beginning only in my head as I laid awake and worried night after night, the project took years to complete. Much of my work in the past has included the awareness that we all have the capacity to care for each other across distance and time, even people we will never know. Back and forth, trying to find my way, the noisiest years of silence was my constant reminder."