After one year of research and a series of in-depth drawings about Alzheimer's disease, I selected a suite of portraits of a few patients who have suffered from this illness.
The first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease was back in 1906. Her name was Auguste Deter, and the most incredible thing for me is that now over 100 years later, we still wouldn't be able to offer her a treatment to slow or stop the disease.
Here is all about the discovery of Alzheimer's disease
That's why Auguste Deter was the main inspiration for my research and the beginning of this work. Her portrait can be seen in the space between the old man's eyes. This old man also describes a part of my family, the resemblance of my grandparents who had the blue of the sky in their eyes, a warm look, and a sincere smile. I named this portrait M, and the title of the whole work is quite descriptive, ‘Unforgettable’. Once you can observe all the clear faces in M's portrait, you can also see from his wrinkles other less obvious faces. Each small portrait is connected by those lines of wrinkles, this could be discovered by each viewer.
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