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The Books
A week spent creating the books that will belong to the wonderful people we have been working with at the care home. I’ve just finished my third book – such an intense experience. I’ve come at the project very much as a writer, gathering material to shape into art. There is an ambiguity in this…
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It’s when he shows me the photographs that it hits me. D has been playing the mandolin for me – he plays for everyone, some love it, some bark back, D meets any reaction with a smile or a laugh. He is, I think, Chinese, and he used to play and sing in Singapore, in…
Read MoreThe story of ageing
Ageing is a project, a work of existential art, a story that one continues to write until one can write it no more – it does not end when one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s by a doctor. Peter Whitehouse said this, in his book The Myth of Alzheimer’s where he urges us to change the…
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