The Tick of Memory
The Tick of Memory represents one argument (the values of comic books created by carers) in my dissertation topic: The role of comic books in dementia intervention: How do comic books created by carers help dementia care positively?
In general, comic books created by carers have reference value and social significance. The creative process can help carers relieve emotional stress. Moreover, the reading process can help other carers provide better care for people with dementia and make the public more aware of dementia. However, jump out of them, I found that the most basic value of comic books created by carers is to use comics to record the life of a dementia family and document their disappearing memories; this also is the basis of other values and benefits. So I designed four sequential graphic narratives from people with dementia's perspective to show the life changes dementia brings to people.
This series of comics have a progressive relationship; the number of panels is increasing. Then I also designed them into clocks because the easiest way to test dementia is the clock drawing test. They point to 2:50, 4:40, 8:20 and 10:10 because these four times is the most common time in clock drawing tests.
MEMORY LAPSE
They may forget the order of things they have done or the correct order of doing something.
THE WORLD DISTORTION IN THEIR EYES
They may see the world differently than they thought it was; feelings of confusion, fear or loneliness can arise.
UNABLE TO FIND THEIR POSITIONS IN THE WORLD
"I feel as if I'm losing my leaves. The branches and the wind and the rain. I don't know what's happening anymore. I have nowhere to put my head down anymore."
- The Father
MEMORY LOSS
They gradually forget about people and things around them, even including themselves.
Motion Simulations