William Graustein
Traces Exhibition
Exhibition at ConnCAT
Exhibition
June 14th - July 28th, 2025
Monday - Friday: 10 AM-4 PM
Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology (ConnCAT)
4 Science Park
New Haven, CT 06511
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 how 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 when something lingered - an encounter, a gesture, a trace - and invites us to notice it more deeply.
This work does not explain. It invites. It offers a space to reflect on the act of witnessing itself, as well as the tension between reverence and intrusion, between the roles of the witness and the trespasser. 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.
