Meet me at MoMa

 

Meeting Alzheimer’s at the MoMA is about Art, what we can do with Art and what it can do for us in coping with DD. My comments along with one entry on my blog noting a number of articles on Alzheimer's Reading Room (ARR) tell about it. The material in ARR can be accessed by Clicking on Meeting Alzheimer’s at the MoMA or on my Archive by clicking on Meeting Alzheimer’s at the MoMA

It but opens the door, but such a door. There seems to be something sacred to tapping into our creativity when we are faced with coping with the Disease Dementia (DD). 

It could be looking for something to do, but I think it is so much more. 

Something happens in the course of this disease which I think has to do with the brain's plasticity, namely, its capacity to find new pathways, its capacity to generate new brain tissue, all with the purpose of finding different ways to do what no longer can be done because of deterioration.

I sincerely believe that in forging new ways the brain tunes into our more sensitive parts. (The Right Brain some say) that is not the dedicated data keeper, rather, it is the intuitive, non-thinking, innate, visceral, spontaneous part of us.

"All that I know" is handled by the data accumulator in our so-called left brain, the serial, quantitative part of us. In reality it is a limitation. It consists of "All I Know" and absolutely no more.

That which we "intuit" that is instinctual comes from the so-called right brain, the one that senses, doesn't think. It is not serial, namely, one thing leading to another. It is absolutely "Now!" It includes anything we are willing to tap into. As such it has no limitation.

Before DD most of us have been too busy accumulating data, anything material and storing it for our rainy day, namely, whenever it happens that we can use it. In our technological world we simply have no time to do more.

Post DD brings Game Change. With me artistic creativity blossomed. Before DD it did not exist. With others it can be music or some other creative expression. It becomes possible and it becomes something helpful to sustaining us in this new universe. We get so much out of this new-found ability.


The top Picture is my work as is the bottom one.