Maps of the opaque mind | 2021 | SERIES OF 5
Maps behind sanded builders film: Vintage twine, wood, found objects and builders film.
One of the most impactful events for me was the fact my mother, She’s 80 next month bless her, was diagnosed with vascular dementia.Now the most weird and wonderful things happen in her tiny world and she knows it. Which makes it even harder for her. She laughs out loud about the silly mistakes at times.But it’s been hard to see her slowly Getting more and more distant with her own life and the world around her. I can only imagine how it must feel for her to get lost in her own memories.Her struggle to keep connecting the dots. Witnessing his very strong mother of mine losing the faith in her own memory has made me decide to try and capture this aesthetically in my latest art works. Maps Of The Opaque Mind is a series of contraptions behind very delicate skins. The objects are hold together mid air with string and twine between them. It visualises my mother’s desperation to keep individual memories and emotions connected so life makes sense again. But the opaque latex skin’s blurring impact makes it impossible to find her way around. The mind’s attempt to map it all out fails. My attempts to help her will fail even harder. To make her smile and feel happy is what I do instead. That works. Sometimes. A little. Which is better than nothing and these little moments now mean the world to me and her.
