"William Schaff's plaintive scratchboards explore a world he has come to know through mass media and personal experience. It is a world surrounded by ghosts and memory, which he has acquired by experiencing the documented memories of the past that shape his world today. Schaff creates a disquieting body of work, graphically depicted, but approaching those things which need approaching in a world where the speed of things can more often than not keep us from slowing down and noticing who is being affected by what. He puts viewers in a position from which the frightening and the uncomfortable aspects of humanity must be reckoned with."

Tom Morrissey - Providence Monthly Magazine