Eliza Stephens
The Phantom Mirror
‘Phantom Mirror’ is a new form of AI phototherapy, developed through dialogues with artificial intelligence. It is a way to process my experience caring for my mother, whose dementia is a slow, devastating unravelling of memory and self-identity. During distress, I engage in mini-therapy sessions with AI, not to seek empathy, but to clarify emotions and generate prompts to create images, turning confusion into creativity. This helps me explore a disintegrating world of fragmentation: the loss of recognition, the collapse of time and place, the difficulty of everyday tasks. A profound sequence emerged when my mother no longer recognised my father, William, and he became ‘Fake William’. Through this exchange, ‘Phantom Mirror’ explores how dementia, psychoanalysis, and AI’s neurodivergent logic illuminate one another.
Josie Bradnock • Edward Elphick • Paige Grace • Destiny Hills • Alyce Hume • Brianna Johnston • Abigail Lee • Max Martin • Eliza Stephens • Reuben Witcherley •
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