Heather found this work and wrote:

“I have to admit I was most intrigued when I came across a small package containing some money (old pound notes), a cotton patch and thread, and a newspaper cutting from the Births, Deaths and Marriages secion in the paper dating 1957 rolled up in a piece of mattress ticking tucked into the wall bordering O’Donnell Gardens and Luna Park.

When I unwrapped it, I instantly felt as though I was invading someone’s privacy. That these posessions were very special to someone and that they had been lost. That this may have been all that they owned.

I thought about returning it to the place it was found, but instead it now hangs on my pinboard at work. I feel, rightly or wrongly that the owner was experiencing a sense of loss and that now the physical acknowledgment of that loss has also now been lost to them.”

Stash is part of the Cracks in the Pavement project. The work calls attention to the ‘in-between’ spaces encountered throughout everyday life. The project focuses on details within the urban landscape and encourages close inspection of our social space. Artists have placed art objects into the landscape for people to find and keep.