Home

For the last 3 years I have been investigating Alzheimer's in its advanced and final stages using as a common threat the correlation with the very foundation and main pillar of photography: memory and how to feel and grasp it, touch it in the face of its

Home

Having a grandmother diagnosed with Alzheimer's and being accepted as a witness and documentary filmmaker in the daily life of an Alzheimer's day care center in Orlando; a place I have recently started to call home and which faces the challenges of an immigrant and language barrier.

I was able, in that nursery room and in the presence of those who became my friends, to understand the very notion of belonging and the act of holding on and my desire to revisit my relationship with my grandmother.

Investigating and being close to the photographed pacients who collaborate in this project: Marcy, Janet and Joan, allowed me to access their routine, the repetition and find in each of these stories and lives, their textures, the patterns, the attempts to get home as long as it last, their brief involvement with a stranger and their escape.

Sometimes, while attending to them and the nurses, filming for special holidays and documenting their relationship with the deceased, most of the time I was surrounded by their silences, eyes, looks, belongings and their skin that gave me hints and curiosity of who they were and who they continue to want to be. So many stories and so much symbolism that the skin, separating inside and outside, can carry. I continue to do this project to honor them and ensure that they are felt as gifts and how their stories endure even when their capabilities are limited to that.