Forget holds a large number of images, but only shows one image a day. Each day the image inside the locket slowly degrades and is finally deleted. The digital logic operates to hold onto the most precious aspects of each image for as long as possible, but eventually an image dissolves entirely.

Made in response to spending time with people living with dementia and learning about different individuals’ personal, nuanced dynamics of forgetting the locket visually ‘forgets’ an image each day in ways that echoed these dynamics. It was made as an object that empathises with how we experience forgetfulness and also memory loss and to evokes the notion within personhood in dementia that each of us are far more than the sum of our cognitive abilities. Rather than dementia being seen at its extreme as death of self, as a deteriorating state of unbecoming a person or “a steady erosion of selfhood to the point at which no person remains” the theory of personhood highlights how we construct and maintain self and being a person throughsocial relationships and that “[one] could dispense with psychological memory…without ceasing to meet the criteria for personhood”[1].

[1]Sabat, Steve R., and Rom Harré. "The construction and deconstruction of self in Alzheimer's disease." Ageing and Society 12, no. 04 (1992): 443-461. P.447.