“Uglifying, showing something at its worst, is a more modern function: didactic, it invites an active response.” - Susan Sontag
Don’t Cry, It’s Not That Bad is a body of work that explores how Louise has adjusted to coping with her illness within the privacy of her own home to requiring full-time care in a nursing home. A critique against the medical apparatus, this series offers a critical perspective into late stage dementia as patients are often treated as objects of their disease rather than autonomous subjects.