A Life Erased
2023
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I imagine walking into a room that I've walked into a hundred times before.
I no longer recognize it.
It's as if someone has rearranged the furniture, and removed a few items in the process.
I confuse time and space.
I don't remember important family events and even deny they happened.
Familiarity is foggy and eventually loses its place altogether.
I cant remember what I did 15 minutes ago never mind yesterday.
I can't find my words, like I can't find my slippers, which I believe someone has stolen.
Perhaps the same person or persons who have rearranged my furniture.
It feels like someone is stealing everything from me- my thoughts, my words, my memory.
It's a cruel form of identity theft.
And there is no way to get it back.
A life erased.
This show is dedicated to my mother Joyce Filletti who was diagnosed with Alzheimers in 2017.
The photos below are from the family album beginning with her as a child in Malta and ending with her stay in Greenview Lodge, Don Mills Ontario.
