Tierney Gearon is predominantly a fashion photographer however her book ‘The Mother Project’ is one of my favourite photographic series. The book features a series of photographs documenting her mothers battle with Alzheimer’s. The raw and even controversial images, show the relationship between herself and her un-well mother. Gearson’s mother is photographed in different environments doing odd and immature things. Her Alzheimer’s has stripped Gearon’s mother of all maturity and turned her back into behaving like a child. My favourite image in this collection is Gearon’s mother, with a mask standing in a corn field scaring her son. This image is so important, it sums up her mothers condition. She has become a stranger and even a monster in the eyes of her family, she is simply unrecognisable. The scary mask is a metaphor for what the mother has become inside and out. I want to use Gearon’s work as inspiration for my own work in this environment unit, perhaps by photographing weird objects or people in mundane environments.