{"id":1706,"date":"2022-10-27T17:16:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T15:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/?page_id=1706"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T09:04:31","slug":"22-anneri-erasmus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/22-anneri-erasmus\/","title":{"rendered":"22 Anneri Erasmus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1706\" data-postid=\"1706\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1706 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div   data-css_id=\"tb_uydt560\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"themify_builder_row module_row fullcover fullwidth_row_container tb_uydt560 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 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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_p7uk563 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_vnk1563   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n            <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <h4><strong><b>Welcome Home<\/b><\/strong><\/h4>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_emw9564  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n            <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p>by Anneri Erasmus<\/p>\n<p>Throughout my life, the hospital was \u2018a home away from home\u2019 to my mother, and a place that continues to make me feel both uncomfortable and assured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Welcome Home<\/i> is informed by my memories and experience of growing up with a mother who, at times, spent almost as much time in hospital as she did in our home. My mother suffered from fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis \u2013 a combination which caused her to suffer severe spinal problems. Doctors had to stabilise her spine with nuts and bolts every time another disk got eaten away by the RA. Growing up, the image of a bedroom in the house and a bedroom in a hospital was uncannily similar to me. One would just have a slightly more \u2018homely\u2019 feel than the other, although both contained a disquieting mix of home comforts and medical paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>A key work in the installation comprises the three back braces that belonged to my mother, and that illustrate the progressive deterioration of her health. Each brace is larger than the previous one, and designed to afford increasing levels of support. The braces are filled with artificial flowers, evoking the fake compassion of many hospital visitors. The blurring of home and hospital was a constant throughout my life, until my mother passed away in 2021. After her death I am left with the remnants of her struggles, and with my struggle to make sense of a childhood torn between hospital and home.<\/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_lgbb816\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"themify_builder_row module_row tb_lgbb816 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_1j4d816 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 tb_7rgd817 layout-grid  \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n            <div class=\"module-gallery-grid gallery-columns-4 tf_clear\">\n\t\t\t<dl class=\"gallery-item\">\n\t\t\t<dt class=\"gallery-icon\">\n\t\t\t<a data-title=\"\" title=\"\" 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https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/anneri-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<h4><strong><b>Welcome Home<\/b><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>by Anneri Erasmus<\/p> <p>Throughout my life, the hospital was \u2018a home away from home\u2019 to my mother, and a place that continues to make me feel both uncomfortable and assured.\u00a0<\/p> <p><i>Welcome Home<\/i> is informed by my memories and experience of growing up with a mother who, at times, spent almost as much time in hospital as she did in our home. My mother suffered from fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis \u2013 a combination which caused her to suffer severe spinal problems. Doctors had to stabilise her spine with nuts and bolts every time another disk got eaten away by the RA. Growing up, the image of a bedroom in the house and a bedroom in a hospital was uncannily similar to me. One would just have a slightly more \u2018homely\u2019 feel than the other, although both contained a disquieting mix of home comforts and medical paraphernalia.<\/p> <p>A key work in the installation comprises the three back braces that belonged to my mother, and that illustrate the progressive deterioration of her health. Each brace is larger than the previous one, and designed to afford increasing levels of support. The braces are filled with artificial flowers, evoking the fake compassion of many hospital visitors. The blurring of home and hospital was a constant throughout my life, until my mother passed away in 2021. After her death I am left with the remnants of her struggles, and with my struggle to make sense of a childhood torn between hospital and home.<\/p>\n[gallery ids=\"1911,1910,1912,1913,1914,1915,1920,1919,1918,1917,1916\"]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1706","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=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1706\/revisions\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesfineart.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}