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.
29.4.19
I’ve made signs for both mum and me to wear around our necks.
Mum’s sign says ‘I am Marysia’.
My sign says ‘I am Jane. You are Marysia’.
I think these will help her orientate herself and remind her who I am and who she is. It’s getting blurry for her. I think she thinks we’re a unit and not two separate people.
29.7.19 It’s evening again. Mum took herself to bed wearing all her clothes. I wake her up a couple of hours later to go pish, wash herself and put cream on her happy rash . She sits on the bed I dire