In the process of making this piece, the scructures which allude to a structure of a brain, was made by pouring melted wax onto ice, to which the ice melted and wax had set. After making 3 of these sculptures placed onto 3 projections to represent 3 ‘stores’, extracted from Shifferson and Attkinson’s ‘Mult-store Memory Model’ shown below. Each projection showed footage which resembled the following: short-term memory (shown through my dad’s photographs) , long-term memory (shown through more recent family photographs of my grandma) and sensory memory (live projection of the spectator entering the space and looking at the work).

Using photographs found from the attic after my dad’s abandonment, I used photographs which captured my Grandmother’s memories with me that she could no longer remember as a result of her Alzheimer’s. This concept prolonged into several other pieces including ‘Trapped Memories’ and ‘Body and Mind.’ All 3 were pieces made during the last few months of My Grandmother’s life, as she had been diagnosed with stage 4 lymph node Cancer, giving her 3 month left to live. She managed 5 months. Her Alzheimer’s became a blessing in disguise as she could not remember why she felt sick, and the series of 3 are in response to this.