Mind filler story
I have a friend who is losing her faculties to Alzheimer’s, slowly but visibly – each time we meet, a distance of a few months, an inevitability of her decline sets in, sadly; she is fading away…
Fading away…recent memories thinning out, clinging to the past, emotions flat or irritated, pinning time sequences down uncertain, fabulation filling gaps. None of us, her friends, can avoid being patronizing – and I am somehow sure she sees and suffers from that until she momentarily forgets who we were to her.
Everything that inhabits our multifaceted brain will eventually seep out, leaving a hollow shell – the one we started with. Life backwards until nothingness.
This series of images reflects upon the momentous milestones in our lives – childhood, coming of age, love, marriage and partnership, family, heritage, traditions – and the devastation of losing them in the grip of Alzheimer’s and dementia. That cancels our identity and, eventually, life.
Perhaps not an uplifting end of our journey of inhabiting the hollow mind with life, yet the reminder to cherish experience, moments, and memories as they are transient and elusive, as the life itself. The last life story in the Carousel.
Carousel
…and we’ll start from the beginning, yet again…
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