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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.

The Betrayal, 1940

The Betrayal, 1940

The Betrayal, 1940

31.8.24 (filmed 19.12.23) When mum is alert, I continue to tell her stories from her life, from her early years. The same stories that...

Jane

Aug 31, 20242 min read

Do not cast me off in my old age

Do not cast me off in my old age

Do not cast me off in my old age

28.8.24 Walking into mum’s Aged Care facility makes me sad. All around me old people are languishing. I reach the main common area where...

Jane

Aug 28, 20243 min read

Marysia Kohn - a Lodz Ghetto Survivor

Marysia Kohn - a Lodz Ghetto Survivor

Marysia Kohn - a Lodz Ghetto Survivor

17.8.24 My name is Marysia Kohn. I am a Holocaust survivor. I light this candle in memory of my mother - Cecilia (Cela) Messing...

Jane

Aug 17, 20241 min read

'What could we say about Life?'

'What could we say about Life?'

'What could we say about Life?'

'...That we are trying our best To be nice, that’s all'...' 27.7.24 Every night when I say goodnight to mum, she blesses ‘the little...

Jane

Jul 27, 20242 min read

Thank you....that you love me

Thank you....that you love me

Thank you....that you love me

February 2024 Who can be more grateful than mum, Marysia Kohn? 'Grateful. That you are here. That you came. That you say goodbye. One...

Jane

Jun 16, 20241 min read

A fighter to the end...and a message

A fighter to the end...and a message

A fighter to the end...and a message

2.6.24 Mum has always been a fighter. When things get scary mum is there on the defence. I remember when I was around 13, mum and I were...

Jane

Jun 2, 20242 min read

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