KATIE MAYERS

My grandma was one for hoarding everything, she always believed that everything would be needed again one day. We would go through her kitchen cupboards and find tinned food 10 years out of date, and still refused to through it out. Her main hoarding was photos, she would keep every single photo she took or got handed, but the problem is she had very little organisation and placed them all in a suitcase. This suitcase, even though unorganised, is a piece which shows a lot of who my grandma was. There were little bags in the front pockets of the suitcase which suggests some attempt of organising. Around the house, my grandma was quite an organised woman, with everything having a place, this makes this suitcase a rare sight of a mess.  this leads me to believe the suitcase un-organization is due to her dementia, and inability to put together the correct story of the images. This made me want to capture the suitcase, as this showed the deterioration dementia took on my grandma.