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'Family Divorce' is a spoken word sound piece. This monologue relates to the time when I first became Zema; the name I invented to distance myself from my family. It's an autobiographical work of recollecting and remembering of a distant past: a 'difficult' coming of age. A time when my main concern was survival in what seemed, like I was living in a perpetual 'state of siege'.
Newly arrived from Spain, we were a proud yet dysfunctional family of five siblings (including myself), and a loving mother and father who found it hard to meet their children's emotional needs, as their main focus and concern was the establishing and the running of the family's restaurant business in Sydney's CBD. 
Unable to conform to this new way of life and with no resolution in sight, I had no choice but to break away and find myself. At the age of 14, I divorced myself from my family.
My parents are now both dead, but my relationship with my four siblings is still as problematic and dysfunctional as it was then......there is love, as there's always been love in our family, but this love is bittersweet.
Synopsis: The aeroplane heard at the beginning fades out, clearing the air and grounding me, so I can start my story. The constant drone in the background represents time and the spikes in the drone: uncomfortable memories. The flash of the match and subsequent crackling, echoes the frustration of ambivalent emotions. 

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