Marking Time
Janine Partington Projects
Bristol, England
This piece is concerned with the idea of memories being moments stitched together in time. It is uneven, bent, stretched, there are threads left hanging. The black sections represent the way in which dementia blocks avenues to memories leaving blanks, leaving nothingness.
These stools are intended to create a place where people can sit and talk and share memories. Memories are one of the most important things that make us who we are. We can only inherit memories if they are passed down to us and so it is important to make the time to talk and share with our loved ones. Once dementia takes hold the sufferer relies on those around them to give them their memories, even if only for a brief moment in time.
This is the house to which my father wished to return in the last years of his dementia. The house has been pulled down and so I have ghosted it in this image to represent a place only existing in memory. It is leather that has been hand carved with lino tools and then acrylic paint has been applied into the marks.