Louise Snowball, Room #237, my Master’s thesis, is an interactive, multi-sensory installation rooted in my experience of witnessing my mother’s decline from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Diagnosed in 2012, my mother, Louise Snowball, lived in a long-term care facility until her death in 2017, during which time I documented our visits through photography and video as a means of processing the emotional and psychological trauma of her illness. This work reflects my growing concern with how institutional and medical environments can diminish personhood, positioning individuals as objects of their diagnosis rather than autonomous subjects with agency, knowledge, and will—an experience intensified by my mother’s fear and resistance to institutionalization. Expanding from a two-dimensional photographic practice into installation, I employ research-creation and auto-ethnographic methodologies—combining installation, photography, video, sound, journaling, and drawing—to reconstruct my mother’s room as an interactive space in which viewers uncover narrative “clues,” evoking her presence through discovered audio, video, text, and projection.