Cassandra McMahon, It's Bill, not George (PORTRAIT 2023)

Bill is my Grandfather and I have been looking after his affairs for him for the past three years. It's not a position that I every thought I'd find myself in. At first he still remembered me but now I think, he thinks that I'm just that nice lady who visits him and plays him music and dances around his room to get him to smile. He was a very fastidious man before the dementia diagnosis, so I try to keep his belongings and clothes neat and order for him as well. It can be a gut wrenching thought to know that this disease has taken most of what made my Grandfather himself but he always blows the kisses back that I blow to him after each visit, so I know that it hasn't taken everything.

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