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!
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.
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.
Déjà vu
Miss World Peace incites Violence (Melbourne Rally)
From 2010 to 2015, I attended pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel rallies in Melbourne dressed as ‘Miss World Peace.’ I held both the Israeli and Palestinian flags, hoping to share a message of peace and understanding.
But even back then, it wasn’t easy. People would rip the Israeli flag from my hands. I often felt scared—like someone might stab me from behind. I still showed up, because I didn’t know what else I could do.
Fast forward 10 years. On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out a brutal attack on Israeli civilians. Since then, the hate toward Israel, and toward Jews, has grown louder and more accepted around the world.
In Melbourne, the demonstrations are still happening every Sunday. But now they are larger, angrier, and more aggressive. I wouldn’t feel safe going anymore; it’s become very scary.
How will this end?
More than ever, we have no option but to try and pursue 'peace', somehow, someway.
After the destruction and killing stops, I hope it’s still possible to mend what’s broken — for a better world for Israelis, for Palestinians, and for everyone.
May there be peace. Always.
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 Israelis, Iranians. We love you |
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 Anti-Israel Rally |
 Plonk in the middle of an Anti-Israel Rally |
 An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind |
 Israeli flag ripped away |