{"id":13730,"date":"2020-10-15T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/?p=13730"},"modified":"2020-11-10T08:09:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T06:09:30","slug":"a-view-from-robben-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/art-entertainment\/a-view-from-robben-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Madiba: A view from the island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A View from Robben Island (monoprint and mixed media on cotton paper: 50cmx76cm)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Republished from the Instagram account of our firm favourite @shuilynwhite (cover photo is also hers, from our own collection):<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am incredibly honoured by Zeitz MOCAA to have this work selected for their Home Is Where The Art Is exhibition, which opens on the 22nd of October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a human being and an artist, I felt it important to decipher and record the experience of 2020\u2019s coronavirus in all its aspects: physical, psychological and emotional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockdown, isolation, social distancing: the known world made unknown as people disappeared behind closed doors and masks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wondered at this tangible yet intangible distance that appeared between people, no longer allowed to hug our loved ones, or reach out a friendly hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The danger of touch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I looked out of my window at a neighbourhood made unfamiliar and unreachable by this new distance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though our times and circumstances are different, it made me reflect on Nelson Mandela imprisoned on Robben Island, looking out of his cell window towards Cape Town. A different kind of isolation and separation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet I wondered how it must have been for him to gaze on his world made distant and think of his family now beyond reach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reflecting on lockdown, Shui-Lyn White thinks about Madiba looking across the bay from Robben Island, thinking of his family now beyond reach <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[411],"tags":[491,487,895,896,525,898,231,899,250,897,894,367],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ShuiLynWhite-Fragile-scaled.jpg?fit=1440%2C1920&quality=95&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13730"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13742,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13730\/revisions\/13742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calloffthesearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}