Traces is a contemplative body of work that unfolds from Bill Graustein’s sustained practice of quiet exploration and reflective seeing. These photographs emerge from a personal process of walking, witnessing, and asking questions - about memory, whiteness, and ho we engage with the histories we were not taught.

The images, spare and attentive, serve as field notes from a journey that was less about destination and more about being present and open in the moment. Graustein positions himself not as an expert, but as a seeker: someone learning to see, to listen, and to hold the excitement and discomfort of not knowing. Each photograph featured in the Traces exhibition, marks a moment where something lingered - an encounter, a gesture, a trace - and asked to be noticed more deeply.

This work does not explain. It invites. It offers a space to reflect on the act of witnessing itself, and on the tension between reverence and intrusion, between witness and trespass. Traces is not a statement, but a question held in light and shadow. It offers no resolution, only the possibility of repair - rooted in curiosity, humility, and sustained attention.