14. Letter rack

Hairstyles from the magazines

30th January 2025

My mum has Alzheimers. The sorting of her things, deciding what to keep as her life unravels is complicated emotionally and practically.

I found a camp letter rack; blue semi opaque plastic cutouts of a muscular naked man in high heel boots.

I collected small photos from the decades capturing my mum as she changed.

The 50’s, the 60’s the 70’s.

Photobooths in Newcastle, London, hairstyles from the magazines. I popped them in the letter rack and it now sits on my hall shelf.

An unintended shrine.

I don’t like it but I’m not ready to take it down yet.

As I said

it’s complicated.