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.
A Sweet Death
This project addresses our fear and aversion of death. I confronted this topic by creating a colourful life-size coffin decorated with sweets, representing the fine line between a ‘sweet life' and a 'sweet death'.
This coffin was the centrepiece for an ornate ‘Moulin rouge’ type gallery space. Playing in the background was old footage of clips recorded from my parent’s dress-up parties scanning fifty years of their life, from the 1960s till the present day.
This video demonstrates how my parents, even though survivors of the horror they experienced during the Holocaust, have succeeded in making a ‘celebration’ of their life, knowing, from personal experience, that death is always close by.
Their attitude to both life and death is the essence of this exhibition.
A 'Sweet Death' slack family Cabaret
We Came from the Ashes...And Now We Dance
 And Life Goes Round and Round... Heart, Eggs and Sperm |  Opening night |
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 My Sweet Death Coffin |  Eggs & Sperm |
 The Beating Heart |  Anicca...everything passes |
 The Cabaret Gang: Adolek, Jane, Marysia, Yaakov, Gilad |  Mum and Dad, always there... |