Tethered confronts the weight of generational trauma, the inherited emotional and psychological inheritance passed down through long histories of prejudice and neglect. The chair stands in for the self, navigating the tension between the lives we are bound to and the path we must walk alone. For years, truths are pushed under the rug: secrets, history, pain. But eventually someone has to lift the rug and face what’s been hidden. Remembering becomes a responsibility. Revealing becomes an act of healing. The work insists on both.