Home Front
Narratives of family and identity issues are paramount in this work. Early years students often dealt with things in relation to what we term the ‘home front’. This reflects the relative proximity of life at home. Topics include sibling love, siblings lost, ill grandparents, parental love gone wrong or gone to drink. Some write in the language of home. They also share their personal experiences of physical and mental ill health.
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My Family
The ground from which we grew
Who am I?
Medics question their roles, values and identities
Wounded Healer
Being ill, receiving care and adapting to persistent problems
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Distance
Poignant musings about the student’s younger sister and potentially diminishing bonds
Can They Feel The Change?
A haiku about anxiety in the current coronavirus pandemic
Living with Alcoholism
The author’s experience as child/carer alongside her mother’s addiction
Thirst
Poem about author’s initial denial of diabetes
Reflecting on Grief
Recent family bereavement leads this artist to deeply process her hard-won philosophy around life and death – and that of patients
Mum
Searingly honest poem about a son’s changing relationship with his mother after she has a severe stroke
Brother and Sister
Painting of the artist as a child with her sibling, from a long-lost photograph and this image becoming a talisman for the extended family
Home Front
Explore further through the following sub sections.
My Family
The ground from which we grew
Who am I?
Medics question their roles, values and identities
Wounded Healer
Being ill, receiving care and adapting to persistent problems
OOOH!! Search & Filter
Use the OOOH!! filter system below to locate all the works in OOOH!! which use a particular medium. The dropdown list “Perspectives” will reveal all. You can then narrow your search by choosing additional dropdown categories such as Art Forms and Diagnoses.
An Excerpt From The Diary Of A Patient
Personal account of patient as undisclosed medic hearing her devastating diagnosis unwittingly revealed in clinical shorthand
The Constant Carer
An insight into caring within marriage
False Hope
The complexities of diagnosis and prognosis following a sudden bereavement
Distance
Poignant musings about the student’s younger sister and potentially diminishing bonds
Touch
A dying elderly man being comforted by his wife at his hospital bedside – discussion around withholding further medical intervention
Brother and Sister
Painting of the artist as a child with her sibling, from a long-lost photograph and this image becoming a talisman for the extended family
Some Kind of Miracle
Narrative from the perspective of a child about her terminally-ill mother coming home from hospital for Xmas, then remaining in remission for several years
Hearts
Ninety-two paper hearts to represent the loss of the artist’s father to heart disease
New Glasses
Tough recognition of a grandparent’s emotional abuse, and perspectives around death and dying
Contact
Dark and light – the complexities of consultations stripped bare
My Mother: The Stranger
The poet accompanies his mother through acute clinical depression
Sleepless
Sleep patterns following life’s journey, lyrical literary perspectives and legacy of broken sleep