Aunt Mary

Shot at my great aunt’s house in Brooklyn, New York, in October of 2015.  The underlying story is about my Aunt Mary; age 91 and the matriarch of our family, who is suffering from Dementia. Despite her illness, I viewed our conversations and interactions together to be slower, but still intact as it once was a year ago – five years ago – ten years ago.  I’ve included photographs that show objects from her home and her surrounding spaces to give the viewer a sense of location, time, culture, and lifestyle.  The sequence starts out with light and bright images and moves toward darker ones; a metaphor for her days.  Aunt Mary’s mornings are sunny and clear, yet as the day moves on, she becomes cloudy and confused.