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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

Mum decided to move into my home in 2017, a year after Dad passed away. She was in her early 90s with the first signs of dementia. Instead of feeling burdened, I saw this move as a gift — an opportunity to care for her and share these years together.

These posts capture that precious time: mum living in my ‘share home’ with family members, housemates and guests, supported, appreciated and surrounded by love. The stories also offer a glimpse into the daily joys and challenges of caring for a loved one.

'All about Marysia' also includes stories from her earlier life -- pre-war, the war, and post war years.

Today mum is over a century old.

Slowly slowly Marysia

Slowly slowly Marysia

Slowly slowly Marysia

5.2.23 Gil feels very close to mum. These last couple of days he's tried to get her to eat a little, and succeeded!

Jane

Feb 5, 20231 min read

Maybe I’ll make you an eggy?

Maybe I’ll make you an eggy?

Maybe I’ll make you an eggy?

2.2.23 Most evenings I bring in my lunch box full of food options for mum. I start by giving her the boiled egg - cut into quarters with...

Jane

Feb 2, 20232 min read

Our friend Julie

Our friend Julie

Our friend Julie

Filmed 21.10.21 I met Julie in 1965, on my first day at Mount Scopus. I didn’t want to go to this huge, new school and I was angry. But...

Jane

Jan 10, 20231 min read

Cruel to be Kind :-/

Cruel to be Kind :-/

Cruel to be Kind :-/

22.6.21 I couldn’t find mum anywhere - she'd disappeared again. When I did find her, she had managed to climb over the balustrade and...

Jane

Jan 10, 20231 min read

Did you have pyjama parties when you were young?

Did you have pyjama parties when you were young?

Did you have pyjama parties when you were young?

23.6.21 Cosy memories from lockdown. Wishing Hannah (my sister-in-law and Gil and Coby's Aunty) a happy birthday. We were still unsure...

Jane

Jan 10, 20231 min read

'When I Die' by Yehuda Amichai

'When I Die' by Yehuda Amichai

'When I Die' by Yehuda Amichai

Over the years Mum would sticky-tape little articles, wise words and poems on the walls of her study. When Celina and I packed up her...

Jane

Dec 8, 20221 min read

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