{"id":1957,"date":"2015-01-22T06:44:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T06:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissadeerson.com\/?page_id=1957"},"modified":"2015-01-22T06:44:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T06:44:50","slug":"vegetable-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.melissadeerson.com\/?page_id=1957","title":{"rendered":"vegetable kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">Solo exhibition at The Substation, Melbourne 2013.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">HD video with &#8216;glamour shots&#8217; of a weed-choked urban creek, accompanied by a video of slightly scrappy, home-made light-based advertisements aimed at plants and animals in that environment.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Vegetable Kingdom is an electric love song for a flawed urban paradise, a not uncritical nod to the beauty in the messed-up collaborations between people and commerce and nature. 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