in 1998 angelett created an anti-racism art project. german magazine schmuck wrote in 2001: "joanna trummer, one of australia's leading designers and specialist in art history, founded three years ago, the internationally successful "menorah" project". in the menorah-tree of life project, later often called simply tree of life, according to schmuck magazine "scientists, designers and journalists from australia, belgium, israel and even the pope" were participating. angelett got the idea for the project while working on an object with biblical motive, in which she let "time" be represented by wings carrying symbolic light. she called the piece the "millennium lamp". in the project, the biblical menorah represented the "magnificent almond tree" full of light, considered as a tree of life - "symbol of humanity and rejection of all forms of racism and violence".