{"id":1688,"date":"2022-10-27T16:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/?page_id=1688"},"modified":"2022-11-22T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T11:27:18","slug":"22-jascy-leigh-edom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/22-jascy-leigh-edom\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Jascy-Leigh Edom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1688\" data-postid=\"1688\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1688 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div   data-css_id=\"tb_ssw9119\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"themify_builder_row module_row fullcover fullwidth_row_container tb_ssw9119 tb_first clearfix\">\n\t    <div class=\"tf_abs builder_row_cover\"><\/div>\t    <div class=\"tf_hide row-slider tb_slider\" data-bgmode=\"fullcover\" data-sliderspeed=\"2000\">\n\t        <ul class=\"tf_abs row-slider-slides clearfix\">\n\t\t    \t\t\t<li data-bg=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jascy3-1024x438.jpg\" class=\"normal\">\n\t\t\t    <a class=\"row-slider-dot\" data-index=\"0\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li data-bg=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jascy2-1024x438.jpg\" class=\"normal\">\n\t\t\t    <a class=\"row-slider-dot\" data-index=\"1\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<li data-bg=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jascy1-1024x438.jpg\" class=\"normal\">\n\t\t\t    <a class=\"row-slider-dot\" data-index=\"2\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n\t        <div class=\"row-slider-nav\">\n\t    \t<a class=\"tf_abs row-slider-arrow row-slider-prev\">&lsaquo;<\/a>\n\t    \t<a class=\"tf_abs row-slider-arrow row-slider-next\">&rsaquo;<\/a>\n\t        <\/div>\n\t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/.row-bgs -->\n\t    \t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"tf_abs tf_hide tb_row_frame tb_row_frame_bottom in_front\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tf_box tf_w tf_rel\"   data-basecol=\"2\" data-col_tablet=\"column4-2\" data-col_tablet_landscape=\"column4-2\" data-col_mobile=\"column-full\">\n\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 first tb_pvtb120 tf_box\" >\n\t    \t    \t        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n\t\t        <!-- module fancy heading -->\n<div  class=\"module module-fancy-heading tb_43v9842 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <h1 class=\"fancy-heading tf_textc\">\n    <span  class=\"main-head tf_block\">\n\tFamily Tea      <\/span>\n    <span class=\"sub-head tb_hide_divider  tf_block tf_rel\">\n\tJascy-Leigh Edom    <\/span>\n\n    <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module fancy heading -->\n\t        <\/div>\n\t    \t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 last tb_ieom121 tf_box\">\n\t    \t    \t<\/div>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div   data-css_id=\"tb_drxt527\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"themify_builder_row module_row tb_drxt527 clearfix\">\n\t    \t    <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top gutter-none tf_box tf_w tf_rel\" >\n\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col2-1 first tb_6fm0527 repeat tf_box\" >\n\t    \t    \t        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n\t\t    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_cfh2528 drop-shadow circle  image-center tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n            <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jascy.jpg\" class=\"wp-post-image wp-image-1674\" title=\"jascy\" alt=\"jascy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jascy.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jascy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->\t        <\/div>\n\t    \t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col2-1 last tb_a4bk528 tf_box\">\n\t    \t    \t        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n\t\t    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_9iet528   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n            <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <h4><strong><b>Family Tea<\/b><\/strong><\/h4>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_2tz2529  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n            <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <h4>Monument Gallery<\/h4>\n<p>by Jascy-Leigh Edom<\/p>\n<p>My body of work is a visual manifestation of my childhood memories, as it relates to the matriarchal and maternal lineage through the lens of Coloured female identity. Mohamed Adhikari (2005) describes Coloured identity by stating \u201cin South Africa, the term Coloured has a specialized meaning and does not refer to black people in general as it does in many other contexts, most notably in Britain and the United States. It instead refers to a phenotypically varied social group of highly diverse social and geographical origins.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I grew up with a strong maternal influence, in the form of my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. From a child\u2019s perspective, they all seemed divine in a sense, each with their own virtuous qualities. From my traditional homemaker great-grandmother to my rebellious, untamable grandmother and her only daughter, my independent strong-willed mother. As I entered womanhood myself, I began to notice how they have influenced me and my growth and the cracks in the divine started to come to light. All of these women are flawed, each passing on a different variation of trauma on to the next, culminating with me, my mother\u2019s only daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My work aims to portray the blurry nature of my childhood memory and generational trauma, painted in tea. The use of tea references a personal symbol of maternal love and comfort in my family. It\u2019s also murky and sticky, it ferments and can be sickeningly sweet, alluding to the complicated nature of the relationship between a mother and daughter and the complicated matriarchal relationship in my family. The images are taken from old family albums and displayed to resemble a portrait gallery that one might find in a home. The nature of this display aims to highlight the complicated nature of family dynamics and how love can be so closely linked to hate, comfort to pain and past to present. With this work, I aim to shed light on the underrepresented demographic of Coloured women in South Africa by bringing together the traditional family matriarchal figure: the modern women, the rebels, mothers and sisters that have contributed to my growth. All of these women have influenced me in different ways. Each artwork is unique, with varying depths, marks, lines and stains much like these women and the marks they\u2019ve left on my life, and the diverse nature of the Coloured community in South Africa. The focus is on the amalgamation of various cultures, races and borders that were intercepted to create Coloured people, and the rich history that has been lost or stolen overtime. This is directly linked to the generational trauma experienced in coloured families and the burdens carried by women. Through the mark-making process of carving, I\u2019ve illustrated the wounds and stains left on the women in my family and by using tea, a symbol of warmth and comfort that simultaneously has European colonial ties, it references the complicated nature of the coloured community, family dynamics and the role of women.\u00a0 More specifically, in my familial context.\u00a0<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->\t        <\/div>\n\t    \t<\/div>\n\t\t    <\/div>\n\t    <!-- \/row_inner -->\n\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/module_row -->\n\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-css_id=\"tb_afpk214\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"themify_builder_row module_row tb_afpk214 clearfix\">\n\t    \t    <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tf_box tf_w tf_rel\" >\n\t\t\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full first tb_wraa215 tf_box\">\n\t    \t    \t        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n\t\t    <!-- module gallery -->\n<div  class=\"module gallery module-gallery 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Mohamed Adhikari (2005) describes Coloured identity by stating \u201cin South Africa, the term Coloured has a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1688","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"<h1>Family Tea <br\/>Jascy-Leigh Edom<\/h1>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jascy.jpg\" title=\"jascy\" alt=\"jascy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jascy.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/jascy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<h4><strong><b>Family Tea<\/b><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Monument Gallery<\/h4> <p>by Jascy-Leigh Edom<\/p> <p>My body of work is a visual manifestation of my childhood memories, as it relates to the matriarchal and maternal lineage through the lens of Coloured female identity. Mohamed Adhikari (2005) describes Coloured identity by stating \u201cin South Africa, the term Coloured has a specialized meaning and does not refer to black people in general as it does in many other contexts, most notably in Britain and the United States. It instead refers to a phenotypically varied social group of highly diverse social and geographical origins.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p> <p>I grew up with a strong maternal influence, in the form of my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. From a child\u2019s perspective, they all seemed divine in a sense, each with their own virtuous qualities. From my traditional homemaker great-grandmother to my rebellious, untamable grandmother and her only daughter, my independent strong-willed mother. As I entered womanhood myself, I began to notice how they have influenced me and my growth and the cracks in the divine started to come to light. All of these women are flawed, each passing on a different variation of trauma on to the next, culminating with me, my mother\u2019s only daughter.\u00a0<\/p> <p>My work aims to portray the blurry nature of my childhood memory and generational trauma, painted in tea. The use of tea references a personal symbol of maternal love and comfort in my family. It\u2019s also murky and sticky, it ferments and can be sickeningly sweet, alluding to the complicated nature of the relationship between a mother and daughter and the complicated matriarchal relationship in my family. The images are taken from old family albums and displayed to resemble a portrait gallery that one might find in a home. The nature of this display aims to highlight the complicated nature of family dynamics and how love can be so closely linked to hate, comfort to pain and past to present. With this work, I aim to shed light on the underrepresented demographic of Coloured women in South Africa by bringing together the traditional family matriarchal figure: the modern women, the rebels, mothers and sisters that have contributed to my growth. All of these women have influenced me in different ways. Each artwork is unique, with varying depths, marks, lines and stains much like these women and the marks they\u2019ve left on my life, and the diverse nature of the Coloured community in South Africa. The focus is on the amalgamation of various cultures, races and borders that were intercepted to create Coloured people, and the rich history that has been lost or stolen overtime. This is directly linked to the generational trauma experienced in coloured families and the burdens carried by women. Through the mark-making process of carving, I\u2019ve illustrated the wounds and stains left on the women in my family and by using tea, a symbol of warmth and comfort that simultaneously has European colonial ties, it references the complicated nature of the coloured community, family dynamics and the role of women.\u00a0 More specifically, in my familial context.\u00a0<\/p>\n[gallery ids=\"1870,1877,1871,1995,1997,1996,1872,1873,1874,1875,1876,1878\"]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1688\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}