In One Ear
In One Ear
by Alice Anwen Cockburn
That is a strange day.
Tide. Codes. Thursday.
A Birthday.
Watching Telly With You. On the Slope.
Absent-mindedness.
Progress.
In Retirement.
On a Birthday.
Pruning.
The Way.
In One Ear. Out the other. This series is an empathetic look at Alzheimer’s disease, containing dramatized photographs of scenes from my father’s everyday life since being diagnosed. The photographs in this book have been composed to create illusions of memory loss and misplacement, but also of association and familiarity. I want those who see this work to experience, as well as they can, what a person living with Alzheimer’s experiences.
Acknowledgements All my thanks goes to my father, Simon for taking part in this project. All images and foreword © Alice Anwen Cockburn 2019 Text © ‘Whatever the Sea, Scottish Poems for Growing Older’