THE DEMENTIA MIND
I've done a series of paintings that are the what I feel might be going on inside my mom. She has dementia. It's quite advanced now. I actually painted this card a while ago and at the time it seemed that she was in a more peaceful place. Not that she was more in tune to her surroundings but that her confusion wasn't so great and that her life was just more peacefully blurred and less erratic. That seems to be changing again so it's time to do another painting. I'm still not sure what it will be but her confusion and her distance from reality, since a series of small strokes, has taken her down a very new path.
This is the first painting I did regard mom's illness. I saw her confusion as not too extreme but that her brain was not firing properly anymore.
As the disease progressed I saw much more confusion and it seemed that less in her world made sense.
At this point she was unable to focus on anything for longer that a few minutes. That's gone now as there is very little focus and virtually no engagement in her surroundings.
This is a horrible disease. I so love my sweet mom and my heart breaks for her.
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