Rachel O'Neill

Rachel O’Neill is a writer and artist who lives in Paekākāriki on the Kapiti Coast. Her debut collection of poetry One Human in Height was published by Hue & Cry Press in 2013. She recently completed the six-week inaugural International Residency Programme at RM gallery in Auckland where she worked on a selection of film-based projects, including a graphic essay that she is developing into an animated video.

O’Neill comments: ‘Sometimes I’ll just be sitting uselessly at the table and I’ll feel suddenly responsible for all things, just like in Bill Callahan’s song “I feel like the mother of the world”. Sometimes I also feel like I’m the parent of the world who has all along been a child. Or a child who is not a parent but has the responsibilities of one. When I imagine future generations, I hope that people will be linked even more radically by multiplicity. People will be more different, perhaps more comfortable with difference, and also have even more in common at the same time, perhaps be more comfortable with what they have in common. At present all I know is that if one’s (inner or outer) child shows up one better be ready!’

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