Room of Dementia-Broken Pieces

By Ewelina Labuda

Since 2007, I have been working as a care assistant in a care home for people with dementia. A few years ago, my grandmother Eugenia died with this disease, but she died at home with her loving family around her in her own old bed. My project, which I call Room of Dementia-Broken Pieces, is about loneliness and being lost in a place without any way out and about struggling with losing the memories and knowledge that we have during our whole life. Its about anger, madness, sadness, and beautiful old people who are no longer happy through being trapped in unfamiliar place with people who are strangers to them. Even we as family and friends sometimes do not recognize them as those we have love in the past. They are still worthy of our love and our being with them in this difficult time of losing themselves. I hope I manage to picture this through my work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: May 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504941983

Ewelina Labuda

My name is Ewelina Maria Grzyb Labuda . I was born on December 8, 1979, in Poland, and since 2007, I’ve been living in Scotland. I have been studying fine arts for the last five years, and the later three of those have been in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee. The media I tend to work with are digital, analog and experimental photography, drawing, painting, collages , assemblages , video, sound, and installations . The body of my work is created by chance and intuition with many meanings, and that’s why there are no titles, explanations, or directions. Viewers have the right to a free and subjective interpretation. Room of Dementia-Broken Pieces is slightly different only because the viewers know from the start what it is all about, but the pictures and short stories are still open to different meanings. This book was inspired from my personal experience working as a care assistant for last seven years with people who are affected by dementia. It is my song of love and anger and SOS for the elderly.

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