It was May 14, 2021 when my friends and I were driving home from attending our high school’s Senior Sunset event. Senior Sunset was a way for our high school’s graduating class to come together one last time while watching the sunset. After watching the sun set over a beach nearby to our town, we drove in my friend’s car to a park and reflect over the short time we had left until graduation. We sat by a play structure, the silence cut by a few occasional sniffles and the sounds of crickets chirping.
Despite the crushing thought that we would soon part ways, there was comfort in the presence of one another in the moment. I hope to capture the essence of this memory with predominantly moments of silence, cut occasionally with brief sounds of bells and other chiming sounds. I want to overall capture that within the silence, there are moments of brief, fleeting relief.