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The process of creating The Engineer in the Snow: a fantastical erotic fugue for planet Earth.

Sandra Long May 5, 2026 No Comments

I am in the process of making this multi-sensorial theatre work, a celebration of the erotic voice in relation to our beautiful planet, and it feels so timely. Around the…

Ilalang: Lament of the invasive grasses

Sandra Long April 24, 2026 No Comments

The development of a new vocal work in Indonesia. In late 2025, I along with Indonesian collaborators Heliana Sinaga and Faisal Syahreza were invited as inaugural artists in residence at…

Our Warrior: the story of Robbie Thorpe

Sandra Long December 4, 2025 No Comments

Years ago my dear friend Anthony Kelly was working on this documentary about Aboriginal activist Robbie Thorpe while we were housemates, sharing a house with our young kids. I was…

Oh no, here comes the wave…

Sandra Long November 26, 2025 No Comments

A deeply personal story about the impact of CPTSD on a young person

Quirky socially awkward individual or…….

Sandra Long August 11, 2025 No Comments

Here are my experiences as a child of an autistic adult, and why I believe talking about neurodivergence is important. Trigger warning, child physical and psychological abuse and trauma. Recently…

Floral Art

Sandra Fiona Long December 17, 2024 4 Comments

Recently, as I was cleaning up my computer and sorting through my files in preparation for moving to my new laptop, I came across this script which I wrote many…

The Chosen Ones.

Sandra Fiona Long November 26, 2024 4 Comments

What does it take to be a chosen one? In the lead up to the US election a genocide unfolds in Palestine. These are my observations of that time, viewed…

The howling night

Sandra Fiona Long September 22, 2024 6 Comments

When I was in grade 3, around 8 years old, my mother was having a hard time. I think she must have been experiencing a bout of depression, or perhaps…

Confronting Assumptions

Sandra Fiona Long July 3, 2024 No Comments

A true story of how a serial killer impacted my family, autism, and making assumptions.

Why do I keep making works about flight?

Sandra Fiona Long June 26, 2024 No Comments

reflections on my recent work The Swallows- the team and process,

The next best move.

Sandra Fiona Long May 20, 2024 No Comments

I came across a YouTube video a few months back about following your ‘Internal GPS’ for the ‘The Next Best Move’ and I really resonated with it. It was by…

At home with my friend Rejection Dysphoria

Sandra Fiona Long May 5, 2024 4 Comments

When I first heard the term ‘Rejection Dysphoria’ I cried. It explained so much of what I had experienced through out my life. So much of why I had struggled…

Kissing the Virus.

Sandra Fiona Long April 19, 2024 10 Comments

When my brother Ross was in the advanced stage of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), I used to leave Melbourne every month and…

When Life is the lesson

Sandra Fiona Long April 12, 2024 No Comments

with such a fleeting time on this planet, the appreciation we have for life expands when we allow ourselves to be close to death.

The Theatre of Walking.

Sandra Fiona Long April 3, 2024 No Comments

As we walk, we are often deeply invested in the theatre of our life, not even aware we are engaging in a type of theatre as we mull over things.

How I survived a bot attack, stumbling through a sea of click farms.

Sandra Fiona Long March 25, 2024 8 Comments

They weren't stopping. My follower count rose to over 3000 in a couple of hours. It was like a force of ghouls from hell, coming to sabotage me.

The Double Edged Sword of Speech

Sandra Fiona Long March 3, 2024 2 Comments

When my mother was very young, the doctor told my grandmother that her daughter would never speak, because of the severity of her cleft palate. But my grandmother refused to…

Chasing the dopamine; how 16 year old car thieves are helping me fly.

Sandra Fiona Long February 11, 2024 No Comments

‘If you can find a matching key and lock, it’s yours’ the shopowner said. I looked at the jar packed with keys, then tipped some out onto the table. I…

The Tale of the Pop Tart Phone Case!

Sandra Fiona Long February 2, 2024 No Comments

I want to share with you the tale of the Pop Tart phone case. This is an item which I started selling in my Etsy shop around September in 2023…

Botanic Map lanterns

Sandra Fiona Long January 25, 2024 No Comments

Playing with different types of papers and light for a lantern prototype for a series of light and paper works which will form an installation, using vintage maps, tracing paper,…

5 traits I never realised are related to ADHD until I was diagnosed, and how I manage them.

Sandra Fiona Long January 14, 2024 No Comments

The more I accept my ADHD traits and stop pushing and hustling, the more calm and relaxed I feel.

Magic Word T-shirts

Sandra Fiona Long January 7, 2024 No Comments

Word designs for the new year.

Playing with lanterns

Sandra Fiona Long December 27, 2023 No Comments

I guess I am a bit addicted to lanterns right now. They shine the way into the new year for me.

Blasphemy laws perpetuate religious based warfare.

Sandra Fiona Long December 27, 2023 No Comments

I have always, since a kid, been deeply interested in religion. Not in it’s rules and regulations, which innately often seemed unjust to me, being from a family who didn’t…

Every holiday is for everyone, no matter what the belief or practice.

Sandra Fiona Long December 23, 2023 No Comments

Wishing everyone a happy Solstice, Christmas, whatever you celebrate, whoever you are, whatever you believe, it doesn’t matter, wishing you all the joy there is. Because each of us has…

How to foster love in the face of atrocity?

Sandra Fiona Long December 16, 2023 No Comments

I believe everyone has a path available to them, if they listen and are courageous enough to follow it, which will take them to higher and higher aspects of themselves,…

Be in this world but not of it.

Sandra Fiona Long December 8, 2023 No Comments

Be in this world but not of it. I don’t know who said that, and I zero interest in looking it up. But we have all heard it right? What…

Could neurodivergent people be barometers of the spiritual health of a society?

Sandra Fiona Long November 29, 2023 1 Comment

To acknowledge how challenging ADHD can make life is important. But the question is, is it the person who is disordered, or is it the world we live in?

Death is EASY. Love is the Challenge.

Sandra Fiona Long November 22, 2023 No Comments

It’s time to remember the young people, children and babies killed in fighting all over the world by warring factions stuck in old ways and outdated belief systems on both…

Trauma, theatre and truth telling; from the political to the personal.

Sandra Fiona Long November 16, 2023 No Comments

I am currently producing, dramaturg and translating a theatre production called Surat-Suratnya in Melbourne in December. It is a collaboration between Australian and Indonesian artists about true events which remain…

Not Healing, Transmuting

Sandra Fiona Long November 12, 2023 2 Comments

Trigger warning, this blog post refers to violence to children but not in any detail. This is a positive sharing. A couple of months back, I wrote a post on…

Paper lanterns and a Summer Christmas aesthetic.

Sandra Fiona Long November 1, 2023 No Comments

Lanterns are magical because they shine like our souls. Our true selves.

Finding my voice.

Sandra Fiona Long October 24, 2023 No Comments

I am writing this first post on a plane, coming home from a time in Indonesia, where I worked on a theatre project in the ARTJOG festival, Indonesia’s most significant…

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