The Potency of Metaphor
Dementia and Transience #3, My Mother Annie, St. Paul Minnesota, 2002, © Franco Salmoiraghi
On his use of a plastic, toy Diana camera to photograph his mother’s dementia, Salmoiraghi reflects, “In the Diana camera photographs, I was able to feel her experiences of fuzziness of thought, a sense of timelessness and an alteration of space perception which caused a distancing from her previous reality.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson observes in his essay, Nature: “Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.… ...
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