MY PERFECT MAN

My Man in Melbourne

Som Chai meets my family & friends

I am so excited that Som Chai is now in Oz and has been granted a partner visa.

He's met my family and friends, and even come along to Uni with me.

It is wonderful having him here with me - no more lonely nights or awkward outings on my own!

I can throw my wish list in the fire now because he fulfils all my dreams. I am so proud of him - he is charismatic, generous and kind, and he is also Budhist and a meditator!

An Ode to a Human Painting Machine

I wondered whether there was a difference between art made by a human and art made by a machine? So I made a fan that painted, and I became a painting human fan.
Conclusion: there was no difference.

Ketubot/Marriage Contracts

Just an Ordinary Peasant is based on my uncle’s experience as an inmate at Treblinka extermination camp in 1944. His memoir recounts that while being forced to carry corpses from the gas chambers to an open-air pyre, he was handed a sack which held little children who were still alive. The guard commanded the sack be thrown into the fire. The woman I play in Just an Ordinary Peasant is a hybrid character created from the memoirs of my uncle, my parents and my own research. She sings and dances and also throws a sack of babies into the fire. This piece explores my own biases as well as questions the culpability of ‘ordinary people’ who were accomplices to the atrocities carried out during the Third Reich.

An Ode to a Human Painting Machine

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She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother

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My Curtains

Dec 31, 2018

My Curtains

31.12.18. When I walk into my room during the day, I find my curtains drawn together with clips and the room in darkness. Mum has been here again. Time and time again I have explained to her that I like to leave the curtains open during the day to let in the sunlight. 'We can draw the curtains at night, when it’s dark', I explain. She seems to understand, smiles and nods her head. But the next day the room is in darkness once again. I’ve started hiding the clips under the pil

The Rubbish Bin

Dec 29, 2018

The Rubbish Bin

30.12.18. I bring mum some egg and challah with some rocket from the garden. I gently wake her up and she looks at me with surprise. I dreamt about you, she says in awe. I dreamt about you. If not for you, I wouldn’t be alive. She tells me this most days. I smile. I ask her what she dreamt about but she’s already busy eating her food. I give her some hot water. She kisses my hand and thanks me again. What did you dream about? I ask again, curious. What a beautiful person you

The Washing

Dec 28, 2018

The Washing

29.12.18. Shabbat morning. Mum's holding the tub full of washing. What shall I do with this? She is tentative, confused. I am busy at my desk trying to get some work done and have no patience. Take it outside to the balcony, I answer. She doesn’t seem to understand and I know this, but I'm not feeling kind at the moment. She goes to Yasha and asks him. Where is the balcony? Yasha: Ask Jane. She comes back to me, at the desk, still holding the tub of washing. And asks again. I

A Kiss on the Head

Dec 24, 2018

A Kiss on the Head

25.12.18. I sit at my desk reading mum’s stories from Auschwitz, and about a lady called Yetka Salzberg. Her daughter Simone had asked me to send her any info I could find about her mum’s past, as her mum and my mum were fellow Auschwitz inmates. As I read, I notice mum slowly stepping around me looking for a dirty plate to wash or a piece of rubbish to claim. I can feel her behind me, standing quietly, thinking her slow muddled thinking, and then she leans over and kisses me

Hema, Mum and Mali

Dec 18, 2018

Hema, Mum and Mali

19.12.18. I took mum Hema and Mali to our hut near Warburton. I picked them up from Chehan’s place and off we trotted. Mum was very excited and also overwhelmed with all the things needed to be done in the hut. She kept saying There’s a lot to be done... great neglect. And I keep answering her: It was even more neglected when you and Adolek were in charge. Gil and I have worked so hard decluttering the whole place and cleaning, cleaning, cleaning … Mum and Hema have got on li