“Synchronicities”, named after the focus of my father’s senior thesis at the Visual Studies Workshop back in 1979, will contain three archives: personal, intergenerational, and institutional. My father, David Chappe, passed away when I was eight years old. The house I grew up in was filled with his artifacts–many from VSW–of a life well lived. These objects, especially, held more questions than answers which led to my visit in 2019 when I began connecting with his friends and was handed boxes of his work from the Trace Archive I had never seen before. This project will be the culmination of years spent piecing together his life between 1972-79 leading with the questions: what did this creative network mean to him and others?  and what does it mean to be in the space my father studied in when I was his age?