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Posted by Jane Heraghty on January 19, 2015

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This creek divides the town, it slow creeps behind the house, the grass grows high and down and chokes access to the water. A grass fire is one of the joys of life. The smell and crackle of burning grass is exciting and the smell transports me back in time. I watched the neighbourhood kids, we yarned over the fence. I told them of the fires when I was a kid.

Video and Artists Talk about Everything, everything.

Everything Everything Jane Heraghty from Jane Heraghty on Vimeo . “Everything, everything” is a collaborative installation project that starts by asking questions about what to do with unwanted objects and ends with the creation of a densely populated Antarctic world. After collecting thousands of discarded and unwanted things, they were transformed into works of art using hammers, plaster, pigment and paint. This immense vision was made possible through the prolific creativity provided by young people in this region. These metamorphic sculptural pieces were created using the stories of antarctic ponies, lost people and epic journeys across the icy continent. My art practice is story based. I find narratives an accessible way of entering into difficult and complex discussions. In this installation I have created a utopian landscape based on the flaws of the past. This Antartican Arcadia offers solace from this world, where everything is disposable and free to be transf...

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