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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Mar 15, 2019

Who Drank my Tea?

16.3.19. You need a lot of patience, love and good will caring for an old parent. This morning I gave mum her cup of tea and porridge She had a good appetite today - drank the tea quickly and gobbled the porridge all up. Meanwhile I made my cuppa and left it to cool on the kitchen bench. When I returned, mum was standing there and drinking it all up. What could I do but laugh? But it’s difficult for me when she stands in the kitchen looking at me with confusion in her e

Mar 3, 2019

Downhill days

4.3.19. One day all this journaling will stop, I know. But at the moment it’s full on, especially emotionally. Lucy the carer came this morning and gave mum a wash. Lucy said Mum’s gone downhill a lot in the past week. Meanwhile I tidied Mum’s room and found another kuki nappy in the regular bin and stinky pishy nappies in her dressing gown pockets. My hands also stink. Sometimes, because I’m unprepared and upset, I don’t think to wear gloves. I have a heavy feeling in