"Mum was born in a hospital in Kazakhstan, where civilian patients shared wards with discharged soldiers suffering PTSD. They wandered in and out of the maternity rooms, terrifying the patients and making labour even harder for my grandmother. When Mum was born, she wasn't breathing. The staff immersed her in cold water, then hot, then cold water again - a so-called remedy at the time based on no science."
"She kept surviving not because of the help she received, but despite chaos disguised as help. So, as an adult, Mum learned to survive by finding patterns and sense in the unfathomable. She accomplished this by combining her three passions: In photography, she framed moments when the chaos of her surroundings temporarily harmonized into beauty."
A son creates an interactive Mother's Day scrollytelling experience to honor his mother, who passed away in 2011 from cancer. Born in 1945 in Kazakhstan to Jewish parents, she survived WWII and a traumatic birth involving unscientific medical practices. Throughout her life, she faced famine, racism, and misfortune but developed a passion for logic and finding patterns in chaos. She pursued photography, music, and mathematics to frame and understand the world around her. Her son uses modern web technologies including scroll-snap events and scroll-state queries to create an interactive tribute that allows his young son to virtually interact with his grandmother, whom he never met.
#mothers-day-tribute #interactive-web-design #personal-storytelling #survival-and-resilience #web-technology
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