“Here Lies A Good Man” explores the complexities of marriage when a spouse is afflicted with dementia and their partner is required to take on the role of caretaker. Layers of emotion surface as the ability to remain an equal in the partnership dissolves and the roles begin to resemble that of a parent and child.
This body of work is the result of 3 months when I moved back in with my parents to help my mother care for my father who, at 75, was losing his battle with severe vascular dementia. Instead of watching my mother care for my father, I chose to bear witness to a wife struggling to manage her internal conflicts with losing the love of her life to a disease that essentially stole him from her. In an attempt to remove myself personally in order to tell this story from my mother's point of view, I finally was able to grasp the concept ‘Until death do you part’.