Quotes for article by Ardra Cole and Maura McIntyre:
What better way to move people
than to remind them of the most basic factors in daily
life.
I like the way you showed “remember
Alzheimer’s” through intimate pieces of clothes.
I am touched each time I cross the exhibition. My grandpa
had Alzheimer’s disease.
Thanks so much for hanging out
the laundry into the light.
A stirring reminder of how we refuse
(or must not allow) to let the threads of dignity unspool.
I cried and remembered my own mother.
Thank-you, although she did not have Alzheimer’s.
You inspire, unsettle, yet take
me to a place of tranquility. My story.
Loud and clear. May we all be so
lucky to have our children pay tribute to us–in
health and dis-ease.
For my mother’s memories.
I love you Mom.
In paying tribute to your mothers
you have challenged us into seeing the art of daily life,
the lines of ordinary living, and compelled us to reach
out to the mothers and fathers within us all.
The use of photos in your exhibition
have reminded me again that the pain of nostalgia is a
worthwhile one.
Life’s currency is the images
we keep. In our living memory, and beyond its fragility
in photographs, writing, art and song. Thank-you for sharing
these lives with all of us–they now become part
of our own.
How tender, fragile, nonetheless
powerful we all can be, but what a spin life is.
This exhibit speaks clearly to
me as I too am a daughter of a mother with Alzheimer’s
disease.
I obsessively take photographs
to document my life in an attempt to preserve memory and
“save” moments.
It’s a touching and moving
experience to enter for a moment into the histories of
these women. Thank-you for sharing and opening this difficult
process for others to enter and understand, to connect.
It brought back my grandmother
who I have always missed. We didn’t have a name
for it back then other than old age or dementia.
Such a sensitive yet real impression
of life: yours-mine-so many people’s. Each approach
is so individual yet speaks of the same story.
Everyone’s story.
I remain very moved by your transparency
and willingness to put your loves in the light in the
service of so much for so many.
The flashes of loved ones come
into focus as I experienced this tribute to your mothers.
Thank-you for sharing; words are inadequate.