Artist's Descent
Artist William Utermohlen chronicles his descent into the dementia of Alzheimers by self portraits painted over the span of nearly forty years as reported in a recent NYT article.
Utermohlen's self portraits, displayed in a multimedia slideshow , are a moving, striking, and saddening evolution of an artist's perception of himself during his slow slide into the depths of this disease.
Mr. Utermohlen, now 73, no longer paints and now lives in a nursing home.
This post was inspired by a post by Austin Kleon.
