About

Through the lens of a woman on the cusp of what society defines as “middle age,” Silvio presents a body of work that explores past projections of one’s future self, self-acceptance, and the experience of motherhood, in a context felt as both ripe with new life and haunted by thoughts of squandered self potential.

“Was it fear? Was it lack of preparation? Was it a kind of willful blindness to self-knowledge? The reasons for long-ago choices—the safe route, the path of least resistance, the easy answer—are unknowable now. But if the girl had only given herself a chance to fail, what kind of …