What if graphic design was affected by dementia symptoms? 4

BOOK NARRATIVE AFFECTED BY MEMORY LOSS 2

The book Digging up the Past reflects on how memory is affected by Alzheimer’s disease. In the early stages it starts to have an effect on short-term memory, leaving past memories intact. However, with the progression of the disease, semantic memory (the meaning of things), procedural memory (how to do things) and past memories can also be affected.

In advanced stages, it seems as though the disease keeps “digging” at their memories, their identity, until they are almost empty.


Experiment developed with 2nd hand book Digging up the Past by Sir Leonard Woolley, 1954, Penguin Books.