Showing posts with label Group 8: Forever young. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Group 8: Forever young. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Our installation
In Alzheimer’s disease, a disease associated with ageing, nerve cells in the brain are dying, which leads to reduced brain activity. Some of the patterns of brain activity that get affected are those associated with reading. For that reason, the ability to read and understand a message delivered by a text decreases for a person with Alzheimer’s disease.
In our installation, words disappearing can symbolize nerve cells dying in the brain. The message gets weaker and weaker as words keep on disappearing, and you can somehow see the analogy to Alzheimer’s disease and how it progresses. The stripped text on its own also gives us an image of how we may perceive a person with Alzheimer’s disease.
In our installation, words disappearing can symbolize nerve cells dying in the brain. The message gets weaker and weaker as words keep on disappearing, and you can somehow see the analogy to Alzheimer’s disease and how it progresses. The stripped text on its own also gives us an image of how we may perceive a person with Alzheimer’s disease.
