The presence of things past (current work)
While memory is so affected by dementia, it is also intrinsic to bereavement as it contradictorily comforts and reaffirms our loss. Simple everyday objects can trigger memories and connections, simultaneously being emotive and comforting. In the case of dementia, a particular memory trigger can potentially still evoke an emotion even after the memory connected to it has faded.
It felt appropriate and poignant to use familiar domestic settings to explore dementia; how the little everyday things start to change and develop into repetition, tangles, confusion and fading. Living with dementia is to live in 'the moment', I'm interested in exploring this but also the idea of time passing; whether that suggests age, fading, loneliness, or healing, in the case of bereavement.
It felt appropriate and poignant to use familiar domestic settings to explore dementia; how the little everyday things start to change and develop into repetition, tangles, confusion and fading. Living with dementia is to live in 'the moment', I'm interested in exploring this but also the idea of time passing; whether that suggests age, fading, loneliness, or healing, in the case of bereavement.