relationships # 11 ~ family style relationships
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 10:19AM 
Mother and daughters • click to embiggenI decided to accompany the wife on her trip to South Jersey where we hooked up with her 2 sisters to visit her mom. Their mom is in a nursing home and in rapidly declining health. Other than mid-stage Alzheimer's, she has no painful / debilitating disease - her body is just deteriorating as a natural process of old age.
In any event, this trip/visit was centered around informing her/their mom about her brother's recent death. It was a little weird at first since no one was sure how the news would be received or, for that matter, if it would even be cognitively received.
The wife is pictured above as she read the eulogy that was delivered at her uncle's funeral this past Wednesday. It was liberally sprinkled with humorous family anecdotes and good humor. Mom seemed to understand everything and it was a very emotion-filled and "connected" experience.
gravitas et nugalis
Featured Comment: Mike C (no link) wrote: "Let me guess who was watching golf during the visit".
my response: I wondered if anyone would catch that detail - it's good to know that at least some of you are paying attention to my pictures.
Reader Comments (2)
Nice post. Using a triptych is a neat way to capture the "moment" (really three moments that combine).
Since reading your blog, I've slipped in a few diptych / triptych style images in my own work. I find I can use them to express things beyond a single image:
1. A wide angle shot replaced by two or three images (as you have done above - my assumption);
2. Juxtapose two images to illustrate a [conceptual] contrast;
3. A sequence of action is represented by a sequence of images;
4. Imply a relationship between entities (each entity occupies one image in the n-tych);
5. If one image is not strong enough, perhaps two or three ok images can combine for a better result.
Let me guess who was watching golf during the visit.