Consumed by grief, guilt and nostalgia after losing her grandmother, Amy Parrish used watercolor, wax pencil and photographs to explore both the loss and the eroding of her grandmother's memory that preceded it.
Toward the end of her grandmother's life, Parrish worried as much about the stress that dementia was causing her grandmother as she did about the memory loss itself. Parrish says that on her final visit in 2017, her grandmother worriedly asked her,"What would you have done if I didn't recognize you?"
"She described an awareness of slippages that made me think of the way that we experience dreams, except hers came while awake." "There are many days when I ask myself, 'Was it worth it?' when, in those moments, I would give anything to be able to share one last goodbye.""There are many days when I ask myself, 'Was it worth it?' when, in those moments, I would give anything to be able to share one last goodbye."A working artist, Parrish spent time traveling without a home base during a yearlong period where she lost both her grandmothers and an uncle.
In another modern image, Parrish captures a dream she had once, where her grandmother was trying to communicate to her through a photograph in a patch of shimmering light.
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