Everywhere at the End of Time
Poster System
Everywhere At the End of Time is a six-hour audio experience created by English Ambient musician Leyland Kirby, a.k.a The Caretaker, in which he attempts to provide an audio experience that conveys the different stages of dementia.
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Described as a haunting yet ethereal music experience, "Everywhere At the End of Time" is split up into six albums, each titled for a separate stage of dementia. Using haunting loops of ballroom music, white noise, and audible dissonance, Leyland Kirby creates an experience that successfully conveys the horrifying deterioration of the human mind and cognition.
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This poster system explores the visual expression of "Everywhere at The End of Time" and dementia.
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Incorporating aged paper textures and serif typefaces that were used by typewriters in the 50s to convey a feeling of age and familiarity. Each poster deteriorates as "age" progresses and dementia worsens.
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Urban mockup using Poster #5 in the poster series.
The following blurbs are directly provided by Leyland Kirby as he describes each stage and album.
"Here we experience the first signs of memory loss. This stage is most like a beautiful daydream. The glory of old age and recollection. The last of the great days."
"[Stage 2] is the self-realization and awareness that something is wrong with a refusal to accept that. More effort is made to remember so memories can be more long form with a little more deterioration in quality. The overall personal mood is generally lower than the first stage and at a point before confusion starts setting in."
"[In Stage 3] we are presented with some of the last coherent memories before confusion fully rolls in and the grey mists form and fade away. Finest moments have been remembered, the musical flow in places is more confused and tangled. As we progress, some singular memories become more disturbed, isolated, broken, and distant. These are the last embers of awareness before we enter the post-awareness stages".
"Post-Awareness Stage 4 is where serenity and the ability to recall singular memories gives way to confusion and horror. It's the beginning of an eventual process where all memories begin to become more fluid through entanglements, repetition, and rupture."
"Post-Awareness Stage 5 confusions and horror. More extreme entanglements, repetition, and rupture can give way to calmer moments. The unfamiliar may sound and feel familiar. Time is often spent only in the moment leading to isolation."
"Post-Awareness Stage 6 is without description."
