We Keep Swimming, Until We All Reach Home emerges from Jillian Guyette’s inquiry into women’s intergenerational relationships, inherited histories, and the esoteric textures of her upbringing.
The project considers lineage not as a fixed archive, but as an energetic field—one shaped by memory, intuition, embodiment, and the unseen transmissions that pass between mothers, daughters, and grandmothers.
Guyette begins from a biological fact with almost mystical implications: all the eggs a woman will ever carry are formed while she is still a fetus in her mother’s womb. In this sense, our cellular life begins not only with our mother, but within the body of our grandmother. From this intimate and disorienting premise, the work traces the psychic and spiritual charge of matrilineal connection, allowing science, ancestral memory, and personal mythology to fold into one another.
Rather than treating inheritance as something merely received, We Keep Swimming, Until We All Reach Home asks how histories are carried, felt, transformed, and perhaps released. Through this lens, Guyette’s evolving spiritual curiosity becomes a method of listening: to the body, to the past, and to the quiet energies that continue to shape us before language, before memory, before birth.
