Sarah Kanowski

So your dad was helping support the family financially.

What about your mum?

Was she still singing or was she taking care of you full time?

When you were still just a little girl, your mum noticed that you weren't eating much and

Where did she take you to try and work out what was going on and help?

How did you feel about going there?

What do you remember the experience being like?

Was art, creativity, imagination, were they places that you could go as a kind of refuge in the midst of that anxiety, of those big feelings you were having as a little kid?

Play-Doh is nothing to be sniffed at.

Play-Doh is one of the great materials and underrepresented in our art galleries, I think.

I love Play-Doh.

Absolutely, absolutely.

One thing that you did have an experience with as a child, I guess it's a creative pursuit in a sense, is beauty pageants, which are a big thing in the Philippines.

And did you have to do an act, a performance as part of that?

Am I talking to a little Miss Filipina here?

Surely there are prizes for all stages of life.

So after this excitement, Laura Bell, you were living in Manila with your mum, with your aunts, your grandma was around, uncles, and what did you know about your father?

I mean, your mum and dad were still together, even though he was in another country.

What...

image did you have in your head or what ideas did you have about this man?