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Picturing Clouds of Unknowing: Photography, Lostness, and Cognitive Decline (2024)

Lucy Carolan
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The central premise of this doctoral project is that the progressive cognitive ambiguity that is dementia can be creatively apprehended by way of lostness. As defined by Rebecca Solnit, ‘lost’ holds “...two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.” The initial hypothesis of this research was that in certain neurodegenerative conditions the familiar and unfamiliar can confoundingly combine, and that it’s through the lens of this particular combination that some comprehension of dementia as lived experience may be approached. The disorienting misperceptions most commonly encountered in cognitive decline are visual in nature. Given, then, that dementia reveals the importance of vision to perception, how may the photographic, with lostness as optic, be used to illuminate cognitive decline? In what ways can creatively visualising aspects of neurodegeneration in dementia inform understandings of its existential ambiguities?
typeresearch exposition
date13/12/2022
published11/12/2024
last modified11/12/2024
statuspublished
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copyrightLucy Carolan
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1862857/1862858
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1862857
published inResearch Catalogue


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