OMA is an editorial about my grandmothers’s memories and how Alzheimer’s made it increasingly difficult for her not only to remember her past but also to navigate the present.
In the form of this book I preserved audio data over the period of five years in which she often tells the same stories over and over again, confusing names, places and other facts. The layout emerges rhythmically from the audio recordings.
Through her pauses in thought and memory gaps, white spaces are created on the typographic level and the text becomes more and more unraveled towards the end of the book. It is an almost lyrical approach and the reader has to adapt to my grandmother's process of thoughts and how it changes over the years.
Text: Audio transcribed by Sima Moser
Layout: Sima Moser
Photography: Archive of Angeline Nieuwlands-Van Velsen
Format: 130 x 190
Year and Context: Personal project