More Drawthrough Monoprints

Many people who volunteer with alzheimers charities often assist with home help for patients by keeping them company. Many of these volunteers have said that the patients enjoy simple card games which is where this set of draw through monoprints comes from.

I printed a whole deck of cards. Having researched artist Mia Pearlman who uses cut paper installations, I began cutting into each card, and the paper being cut away more and more with each card. I feel this shows exactly how alzheimers work - cutting away at memories until there is nothing left.

The cutting is proving quite time consuming but when I'm finished I plan on making a stop motion with the prints.

Photographing Abandoned Spaces

I looked at artists such as Elmgreen and Dragset who photograph homes and buildings where the inhabitiants play a minimal role. I found a parallel in their work with mine as alzheimers inhabitants the person and reduces the persons role in their own lives to nothing.

I also looked at the work of Martin Parr and his 'Objects' book, where he documents his collection of different objects from different decades, each with a sense of nostalgia and an ability to trigger memories.

I then decided to set up a tripod and dslr camera in my granny's old (now empty) house and photograph the empty rooms and objects.  The empty house is like a metaphor for a person suffering with alzheimers - they are reduced to nothing but an empty shell and left to decay.

Photoshop Experiments

I began layering images over each other and changing their opacity on photoshop. I like how the images look confused and disorientated, as these are feelings most alzeihemers patients experience.

Drawthrough Monoprints

I researched artist Tracy Emin who uses this technique of printmaking. I really like the delicate sketchy quality of the line and how the images are barely distinguishable which I feel reflects what alzeihemers does to memories.

Photocopying and Acetates

I took the photographs I developed from the damaged film and photocopied them and photocopied each photocopy so as to disintergrate the images further.

I also photocopied the images onto acetate and hope to hang these in a wooden frame, so as to see through the layers of damaged memory.