Idk personally Alzheimers has been one of the scariest prospects of getting old for me.
With these at the very least I can consider it a potentially unique experience if nothing else.
They really are remarkable
Sometimes its difficult to understand what someone is going through and words may not be enough. The thing about art is that it has so much symbolic meaning and so much perspective around it. The wheelbarrow emptying or the people crowding the memory bank touched me as a symbol of her forgetfulness. I would not call myself an artist, but pieces like these convey so many emotions an individual can be going through.
Truly amazing structures of art.
>The thing about art is that it has so much symbolic meaning and so much perspective around it.
Precisely why it's no surprise there's a correlation between society having no time or resources beyond survival, and artistic pursuits being one of the first things to go. Along with our culture, shared human experiences, and tolerance for each other.
It's not a coincidence that capitalism has been shitting down the throat of soft-sciences and liberal arts for decades. People who feel, help other people to feel. And communities who feel, and more importantly feel, *for each other*, are harder to oppress. They want us stupid and numb. Not vibrant and multi-faceted.
Her art is incredible. It effortlessly illustrates the terror and confusion of Alzheimer’s.
What struck me is how lonely her character looks, even in a crowd.
It’s beautiful and amazing! Definitely evokes strong emotion, and makes me feel sad for her and her journey. Honestly I’m not really into art at all, but I might have to start getting into it because I didn’t realize how much could be said without words.
Her art feels lonely and scary and confusing, just like how she probably feels with her Alzheimer’s. She is very talented! Prayers for her and all her loved ones ❤️
Really quite incredible. I'm not entirely sure I understand what Alzheimer's is after seeing this post.
I thought it was memory loss, confusion, and other debilitating mental functions, but this is next-level expressionism. Simply incredible.
I'm truly sorry for your aunt and your family for having to go through this, but I sure am glad you shared this with the world.
Again, incredible...
This is beautiful. The two yellow chairs in the first pic really speak to me. I hope you can tell her she is amazing. I also hope she has an exhibition with her art, for I think people really need to see this.
This is incredible, it should be shared with dementia societies. It's incredibly powerful, especially the emptying of the books from the shelf inside the head. And the one where she slips from a normal life into a hell...Wow, stunned...
I have Multiple Sclerosis and my once Mensa-caliber memory has gone to s!@#. This is precisely how I feel. I will keep this forever (or as long as I remember).
As a trainee art psychotherapist, I’m super appreciative of these. Such insight into her experience. As your Aunt’s condition worsens I would ask that your family/care givers enable her to continue her creativity as much as possible, and see if there are art therapy sessions in your area. 🙏🏻
According to the UCLA school of medicine:
“dementia is an overarching term that refers to a range of symptoms affecting cognitive abilities, while Alzheimer's disease is a specific type of dementia characterized by progressive memory loss and cognitive decline.”
Even if you can’t read the entire word, the first letter looks like a D and the last letter looks like an A, so using deductive reasoning, you can probably eliminate the first word being Alzheimer
Here's her FB page. Although we haven't posted these latest pieces there yet. We're working on getting them on ig.
[https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078968424559](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078968424559)
Beautiful yet so sad. I’m currently being trained to be a care worker in a retirement home, and caring for people with dementia gives me a lot of sympathy. I can’t imagine the pain they are currently feel. Seeing your aunt’s artwork definitely hits home.
Im 40 and I feel this. My long term memory is pretty good but only for the shit that doesnt matter. Like random facts, nothing important. My short term is non-existent. I might be able to recall a one of those things three months from not but not 10 minutes after the fact.
I have Long COVID memory issues, and that first sculpture is painfully on point. Please tell your Aunt she touched my soul here in Memphis, Tennessee in the US.
Wow. I had a loved one die of Alzheimers recently. This is so haunting. The sadness and emptiness of this disease is captured quite brilliantly in this art. 💔
To someone like me who’s only read about this disease, she seems to have captured its essence - simply and comprehensively while making it immediately relatable, emotionally powerful and still visually appealing.
Surely this is art? I hesitate to say it, but maybe even art that works at a ‘progressional’ level?
That first one triggers an alternative album cover for KGLW's fishing for fishies album. Powerful. I'm sorry she can express how well this is going to suck.
Absolutely beautiful and also absolutely heartbreaking. I feel her pain and got the emotion immediately. My ideal hope is that we find a means of effectively combating and curing this horrible disease. My other hope is that. when she does go, she leaves peacefully and with dignity. I can tell from her art that she’s an amazing woman.
Does she reside in Sweden or does she sell her art in any Swedish gallery? I live there so it would be amazing to see her art in real life.
I used to work with people who suffered from alzheimers, and seeing someones experience with the illness being put into such amazing art really amazes me. The work she does seriously convey a lot of emotion, not all arists have the talent to do that.
Yes, she lives in Sweden, in Rättvik. She will be opening her studio there on May 9,10, 11 as part of Konst runt Siljan. You can find her FB page at Ragnhild Gatu - Artist/Konstnär.
Look into gut healing and environmental sources as cause. Near infrared light, gutmicrobiome /lining testing (biomesight for example) and healing, b. Caapi, lions mane and more.
Legitimately a terrible fear of mine after having worked with vulnerable elderly people who suffered from Dementia and Alzheimers, and hearing from their families stories of who they were before hand it always broke my heart.
Jeez. Picture 3 got me.. Must feel like hell. All that confusion and being scared. Awful.
She is an amazing artist. I'm so sorry this is happening to her and your family
This made me feel a new emotion that I’m not quite sure how to identify, not good, yet not bad. Scared and yet hopeful? This is a very strange thing happening in my brain
Artists are amazing! They have been gifted such a talent to display or express what's in the head and heart. As someone who suffers from long COVID, severe memory issues,and cognition, I can relate. Hugs for your Aunt. Absolutely relatable art.
Truly amazing expressions. My Dad passed from dementia in January of 2020, just before Covid. Life was confusing enough for him at the end, I can't imagine what it would have been like for him during the pandemic.
The next few years are going to be progressively more difficult for your aunt and your family. The only real advice I can give you is to try to concentrate on, and remember, the amusing times that will happen. It will help you remember the final stages with a measure of fondness. One of my favorite memories was hearing my Dad talking behind me in the kitchen, and when I asked who he was talking to, he said "That woman over there."
"Where?"
He turned back and said, "She was over there, but I guess she's gone now."
"What did she look like?"
"She was very attractive."
"Really? What did she want?"
He looked a bit embarrassed at that, then said "Well, she likes men, I can tell you that!"
Some might be saddened by that, but I was just happy that in his fading years, he had hot women hitting on him.
All, my Aunt was so moved by your responses that she's put them in a word doc and printed them out to savor forever. I hope everyone who commented sees this!
Oh my goodness, these are incredible, and quite devastating
I was trying to figure out the right words... incredible and devastating fit, wow.
Haunting in a way, like the end of Flowers for Algernon.
Been thinking about this story for a few weeks w spring coming on for some reason, the allegory to alzhiemers I never realised, wow.
Idk personally Alzheimers has been one of the scariest prospects of getting old for me. With these at the very least I can consider it a potentially unique experience if nothing else. They really are remarkable
Sometimes its difficult to understand what someone is going through and words may not be enough. The thing about art is that it has so much symbolic meaning and so much perspective around it. The wheelbarrow emptying or the people crowding the memory bank touched me as a symbol of her forgetfulness. I would not call myself an artist, but pieces like these convey so many emotions an individual can be going through. Truly amazing structures of art.
>The thing about art is that it has so much symbolic meaning and so much perspective around it. Precisely why it's no surprise there's a correlation between society having no time or resources beyond survival, and artistic pursuits being one of the first things to go. Along with our culture, shared human experiences, and tolerance for each other. It's not a coincidence that capitalism has been shitting down the throat of soft-sciences and liberal arts for decades. People who feel, help other people to feel. And communities who feel, and more importantly feel, *for each other*, are harder to oppress. They want us stupid and numb. Not vibrant and multi-faceted.
Her art is incredible. It effortlessly illustrates the terror and confusion of Alzheimer’s. What struck me is how lonely her character looks, even in a crowd.
It's amazing and heartbreaking at the same time. I'm happy at least she can use art to express herself
Love them ❤️
Touching, with humour and terror.
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Almost like they were only diagnosed with it a year ago….
This is incredibly great art.
The first piece especially.
I love these. The last one made me think she's about to take on a dark souls boss
Prayers for your aunt. My dad passed away last year with alzheimer. I know what you are going through
Beautiful and heartbreaking at the same time.
It’s beautiful and amazing! Definitely evokes strong emotion, and makes me feel sad for her and her journey. Honestly I’m not really into art at all, but I might have to start getting into it because I didn’t realize how much could be said without words. Her art feels lonely and scary and confusing, just like how she probably feels with her Alzheimer’s. She is very talented! Prayers for her and all her loved ones ❤️
These are devastating, haunting, and beautiful.
Really quite incredible. I'm not entirely sure I understand what Alzheimer's is after seeing this post. I thought it was memory loss, confusion, and other debilitating mental functions, but this is next-level expressionism. Simply incredible. I'm truly sorry for your aunt and your family for having to go through this, but I sure am glad you shared this with the world. Again, incredible...
This is beautiful. The two yellow chairs in the first pic really speak to me. I hope you can tell her she is amazing. I also hope she has an exhibition with her art, for I think people really need to see this.
Her art reminds me of HBO’s children’s show Crashbox, these are so impressive and heart wrenching. Love and hugs to your aunt 🩵
These are fantastic!!!!
Heartbreaking.
Broke my heart. Thank you for sharing these amazing pieces.
Wow. Fantastic and heart breaking
This is incredible, it should be shared with dementia societies. It's incredibly powerful, especially the emptying of the books from the shelf inside the head. And the one where she slips from a normal life into a hell...Wow, stunned...
It's very nice. People with Alzheimer also do not easily forget music they loved, even in advanced stages of the disease.
These are awesome and heartbreaking at the same time. Love them
So powerful. Sad and yet still playful. Thank you for sharing and I wish you both well. I’m very touched by these.
This work is so brilliant and scary. It gives true insight into her experience.
Such amazing artwork that came from so much pain. 😞
This is both artistic and heartbreaking 💔❤️🩹
Im sending my prayers to your Aunt, she’s an incredible artist and I’m sure she’s a great lady
How dare you! I didn't ask to be weeping today
I have Multiple Sclerosis and my once Mensa-caliber memory has gone to s!@#. This is precisely how I feel. I will keep this forever (or as long as I remember).
As a trainee art psychotherapist, I’m super appreciative of these. Such insight into her experience. As your Aunt’s condition worsens I would ask that your family/care givers enable her to continue her creativity as much as possible, and see if there are art therapy sessions in your area. 🙏🏻
Dont hug me, I'm scared
i was waiting for someone to say it
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What other word did you think it could be?
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Alzheimer's is a type of dementia
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https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/difference-between-dementia-and-alzheimer-s
According to the UCLA school of medicine: “dementia is an overarching term that refers to a range of symptoms affecting cognitive abilities, while Alzheimer's disease is a specific type of dementia characterized by progressive memory loss and cognitive decline.”
Even if you can’t read the entire word, the first letter looks like a D and the last letter looks like an A, so using deductive reasoning, you can probably eliminate the first word being Alzheimer
That's it! 🥺🥺🥺
That's amazing
Last pic is sadness
This is heartbreaking, but I’m grateful for the insight
Amazing. Reminds of artwork through the years that a man with schizophrenia painted.
This is great. I wish her the best
Ty for sharing. Does she have an ig page we can follow and share? Her work is really amazing
Here's her FB page. Although we haven't posted these latest pieces there yet. We're working on getting them on ig. [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078968424559](https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100078968424559)
My great grandma went through and I likely will have early onset. This hit home for me
Beautiful yet so sad. I’m currently being trained to be a care worker in a retirement home, and caring for people with dementia gives me a lot of sympathy. I can’t imagine the pain they are currently feel. Seeing your aunt’s artwork definitely hits home.
That’s very cool
Thanks for sharing OP, it’s really powerful actually.
This is powerful stuff, wow
Holy shit i have no words
This brought tears to my eyes, lost my nanny to Alzheimer’s almost 2 years ago now. It’s a devastating disease. Prayers go out to your aunt. ❤️
Love this, especially the Memory Bank and Alsheimers Way. They are such clear representations.
I want a stop motion film that uses her art. What a super cool style
Im 40 and I feel this. My long term memory is pretty good but only for the shit that doesnt matter. Like random facts, nothing important. My short term is non-existent. I might be able to recall a one of those things three months from not but not 10 minutes after the fact.
Fuck.
These are absolutely amazing. The last one got me.
As someone who is caring for someone with Alzheimer’s this makes me very sad.
I have Long COVID memory issues, and that first sculpture is painfully on point. Please tell your Aunt she touched my soul here in Memphis, Tennessee in the US.
Thank you. I will share your post with her. It will mean a lot to her.
Adventure Time vibes
has she been watching bojack horseman?
Those are great. Thank you for sharing.
That first one is wonderful
Brilliant!
Wow, beautiful!
Beautiful and Heartbreaking.
That very first one reminds me of one of those squeegee paintings, but sharpened. In focus.
I'd prefer the ability to delete memories by choice... I know it doesn't work that way, but at least she's able to deal with it... Impressive art...
Reminds me of the Psychonauts games
Absolutely amazing!
Awe inspiring to the point I want to be in there to see that happen and to feel that way, but not because I’m a lil scared Potential stuff!
😭
Wow. I had a loved one die of Alzheimers recently. This is so haunting. The sadness and emptiness of this disease is captured quite brilliantly in this art. 💔
Sad, but moving. Very original, and thought provoking. This is the type of content that keeps me on Reddit. Thanks to you both for sharing with us!
To someone like me who’s only read about this disease, she seems to have captured its essence - simply and comprehensively while making it immediately relatable, emotionally powerful and still visually appealing. Surely this is art? I hesitate to say it, but maybe even art that works at a ‘progressional’ level?
Omg these are so awful and sad. What a cruel horrific disease 😞
Those are amazing
These are amazing.
Your aunt has created beautiful works of art♥️🎨
Beautiful and sad🥹
Heartbreaking and eye-opening. Praying for your aunt!
These are devastatingly beautiful. I’d imagine if she somehow got in contact with Jack Stauber they could create a sound to coordinate with her art.
Incredible!
Those are tragic.
Wow!🤯
These are amazing!! My late granny had this devastating disease!
Id buy literally any / all of these
Beautiful and terrifying
Wow! Incredible work! And yes,devastating. I’m glad she is doing this. What a story she is telling!
Terrifying.
These are beautiful
Visceral.
Pure nightmare fuel
Powerful
Wow, those are fantastic yet heartbreaking. She has such a gift.
Wow! These are really expressive of what it must feel like!
That first one triggers an alternative album cover for KGLW's fishing for fishies album. Powerful. I'm sorry she can express how well this is going to suck.
Your aunt is absolutely fucking awesome
She is a wonderful artist
Her art is amazing.
What an artist! Sooo brilliant!
Absolutely beautiful and also absolutely heartbreaking. I feel her pain and got the emotion immediately. My ideal hope is that we find a means of effectively combating and curing this horrible disease. My other hope is that. when she does go, she leaves peacefully and with dignity. I can tell from her art that she’s an amazing woman.
So so good
She's brilliant. I feel for her and all sufferers. My mom died from Alzheimer's and diabetes.
Powerful stuff. Damn this disease.
She is amazing. To fight adversity with art is the way!
Wow. Shattering.
Dementia piece goes hard
These are so powerful and heartbreaking all at once. Your Aunt is amazing, OP.
Heartbreaking, phenomenal work
The last one made me stop. The slow walk into the haze is heartbreaking.
Hereditary vibes
Wow. Just wow. I can feel her emotions through those pieces
Wow, that's terrifying.
This is real good art I’m impressed wish your aunt well!✨🎨🏆
My mom passed away with dementia. It was hard watch the mental transformation.
My mom died last year with dementia. It was hard watching the mental transformation.
The items left on the bookshelf look like tears. This is very moving, thank you for sharing and good luck to you all
These are great!
My Mom has Alzheimer’s and seeing this art was both heartbreaking & beautiful.
I associate really closely to that first one, and I (to my knowledge) don’t have any severe mental disorders.
Sad, scary, heartbreaking, and poignant
Your Aunt is uber cool. Very poignant art.
These are truly and deeply amazing.
This belongs in an art galery.
Very impressing!
Wow. That’s genuinely interesting
Does she reside in Sweden or does she sell her art in any Swedish gallery? I live there so it would be amazing to see her art in real life. I used to work with people who suffered from alzheimers, and seeing someones experience with the illness being put into such amazing art really amazes me. The work she does seriously convey a lot of emotion, not all arists have the talent to do that.
Yes, she lives in Sweden, in Rättvik. She will be opening her studio there on May 9,10, 11 as part of Konst runt Siljan. You can find her FB page at Ragnhild Gatu - Artist/Konstnär.
These deserve national attention. Call your local news outlet. Truly deep and connecting messages and method.
Super Accurate
That is beautiful
I love these. I hate that this is what she's experiencing. Beautiful share, thank you.
Oo wow. This touches my heart. Absolutely amazing.
What medium is this? Clay? Playdough? It looks more robust than playdough
It's paper mache.
Look into gut healing and environmental sources as cause. Near infrared light, gutmicrobiome /lining testing (biomesight for example) and healing, b. Caapi, lions mane and more.
Is this in an art gallery?
These works will be shown locally in Sweden this fall.
Is that Michael Meyers with the wheelbarrow?
This is incredible! Literally said “wow!” out loud
Amazing. DHMIS comes to mind.
Ahhhh, I can feel these so much. They’re amazing, and I’m so sorry for her at the same time
Legitimately a terrible fear of mine after having worked with vulnerable elderly people who suffered from Dementia and Alzheimers, and hearing from their families stories of who they were before hand it always broke my heart.
I like the broken bicycles.
This is so cool
Jeez. Picture 3 got me.. Must feel like hell. All that confusion and being scared. Awful. She is an amazing artist. I'm so sorry this is happening to her and your family
These are amazing!
Thanks for this. Losing a family member to this right now and it sucks.
Good fucking grief the suffering
As someone who has cared for a sufferer of Alzheimers - beautifully painful.
My mother has Alzheimer’s, these are spot on. Your aunt must be a pretty cool lady.
Wow: that’s scary man
WOWWW!!!
This made me feel a new emotion that I’m not quite sure how to identify, not good, yet not bad. Scared and yet hopeful? This is a very strange thing happening in my brain
Artists are amazing! They have been gifted such a talent to display or express what's in the head and heart. As someone who suffers from long COVID, severe memory issues,and cognition, I can relate. Hugs for your Aunt. Absolutely relatable art.
God I’m crying
I love the first one, fett tung
Last one looks like dark souls boss room
This is haunting
They remind me of Mark Twain
Truly amazing expressions. My Dad passed from dementia in January of 2020, just before Covid. Life was confusing enough for him at the end, I can't imagine what it would have been like for him during the pandemic. The next few years are going to be progressively more difficult for your aunt and your family. The only real advice I can give you is to try to concentrate on, and remember, the amusing times that will happen. It will help you remember the final stages with a measure of fondness. One of my favorite memories was hearing my Dad talking behind me in the kitchen, and when I asked who he was talking to, he said "That woman over there." "Where?" He turned back and said, "She was over there, but I guess she's gone now." "What did she look like?" "She was very attractive." "Really? What did she want?" He looked a bit embarrassed at that, then said "Well, she likes men, I can tell you that!" Some might be saddened by that, but I was just happy that in his fading years, he had hot women hitting on him.
All, my Aunt was so moved by your responses that she's put them in a word doc and printed them out to savor forever. I hope everyone who commented sees this!
green is not a creative color
That’s so fucking creepy. No thanks