ABOUT

Memory is one of the most precious parts of our lives. In many ways, the memories we have shape who we are as a person. By most of society, memories are taken for granted; as something we can always hold on to forever. In 2006, there were 821,884 people affected by dementia in the UK, with many of the diagnoses being Alzheimer’s disease. The disease is one that cause a slow loss of the short-term memory and then through to the long-term memory. For people who are close to them, they see the person they love disappear piece by piece until there is no more pieces to remember you.

In October 2012, my Gran passed away at the General Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne. She slipped away not remembering who I was & where she was because of a disease she didn’t even remember she had. Alzheimer’s denied what made her who we was and caused her slowly fade away from the ones she loved.

Alzheimer’s Disease didn’t kill her, it did something far worse. She passed not understanding what was happening to her. This work has been my attempt to understand what happened to her. This work is about to attempt to emphasise with her and do what she could not. Remember her and the memories I shared with her.

This work is part of a wider body of work being worked on currently