::CraftCube:Research :: Mirror
::we don’t have mirrors here anymore::
Rubber, plastic, webcam, digital screen, computer
In chief collaboration with Guy Schofield, David Green and James Thomas
The mirror can be a disturbing or frightening object for someone with dementia. As they look at a mirror they are confronted with their actual image rather than the younger face that they may be expecting to see. We don’t have mirrors here anymore attempts to recast the role and function of a mirror and to make it something more comforting and meaningful. The piece is made as a handheld, intimate form of mirror with the potential to show each viewer something different, perhaps reflecting more familiar images or memories.
The mirror hanging in the hall of the day care centre had been turned to face the wall. Maurice, who had been coming to the centre every Monday and Thursday for several months had become upset looking into the mirror that morning and so it had been turned around and would later be removed.
Perhaps a different kind of mirror could show its owner things that were more comforting – things that were more dependable – such as well-trodden journeys, favourite things or the most familiar of the everyday…
