John Seed interviews painter Julie Heffernan on the occasion of the exhibition Julie Heffernan: Sky is Falling at PPOW Gallery, New York, on view from October 17 – November 16, 2013.

Introducing the interview Seed writes that Heffernan's works are "imaginative visions of a world that is blighted and chaotic yet somehow still transcendent. Each painting depicts a vignette that is an enchanted allegory of the artist's anxieties about the future, oxygenated by her imagination. Most are set in visionary landscapes that are simultaneously sheltering and threatening… Rich, complicated and paradoxical Heffernan's recent works offer a new Romanticism designed for our damaged planet."