Previous work
This body of work is exploring the losses identified with the rapidly downward spiral of Alzheimer’s Disease. It is about losing your yesterdays, living for each day and your short-term memory hanging on by a couple of frayed threads. Yet, you are still you.
I am investigating these deep and increasingly irretrievable memories by using language as my key witness. It is about holding on to memory, the effort this encompasses and the resulting distortion and disintegration.
Materials and processes are a metaphor for these losses and are determined by what makes the best vehicle for my message.
I have begun this body of work by making a series of drawings using methods and materials to reflect the fragility, vulnerability and structure of the suffering.
As the work progresses, I want to show that Alzheimer’s doesn’t take away memories – they are all still in there. It is the part that gives a person access to the memories that is damaged.
I am investigating these deep and increasingly irretrievable memories by using language as my key witness. It is about holding on to memory, the effort this encompasses and the resulting distortion and disintegration.
Materials and processes are a metaphor for these losses and are determined by what makes the best vehicle for my message.
I have begun this body of work by making a series of drawings using methods and materials to reflect the fragility, vulnerability and structure of the suffering.
As the work progresses, I want to show that Alzheimer’s doesn’t take away memories – they are all still in there. It is the part that gives a person access to the memories that is damaged.
© 2011 Jeryl Church
