Inside an old barn on a dirt road in N.B., an artist creates a secret world

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There are things you expect to find in a half-gutted old barn on the side of a dirt road in New Brunswick: rusty tractors, buckets of nails, fishing poles. Maybe a few mice gnawing the walls. 

Then there are unexpected and wonderful things.

Like a surreal garden of airborne flowers floating down the 9-metre length of the former hayloft. 

Hundreds of blossoms, handmade from drafting paper and reeds, swaying gently in a Charlotte County summer breeze.

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Breath is a work-in-progress by Ann Manuel. The massive section of the work she’s currently installing is called Mumuration. (Julia Wright/CBC)

“It’s a Cabinet of Curiosities back here,” said

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