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Nell waking up... or dreaming

I like drawing old ladies. They have character and no-one expects them to be beautiful or graceful...although they often are. They are full of interesting wrinkles and contours, never bland. Full of stories and symbolisms, usually they embody someone - a Mum, Great Aunt or Grandma - who is important.
My own mother was ill last year - queue panic, what's app group flurries and early morning motorway dashes. False alarm, but it made me think of how people we love never die, so long as we hold them in our memories. But how does that work from their perspective? And how on earth do you indicate in a drawn animation the idea that someone (Nell) is living in another person's memory? Are they conscious, or just a movie which plays? Can they affect the rememberer, or are they just trapped in a time-loop? How frightening to suddenly jump from being 30 in a maternity ward to being 80 celebrating some anniversary. From first date to deathbed and back. Maybe it's like dreaming. Maybe it would be easier to write this as a book! So much, always so very much more to learn...