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The Queen of Peace Room (Life Writing)

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What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a life-time?

Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker, an artist and a author ― and frees herself from the memories of her violent past.

On an eight-day retreat with Catholic nuns in a remote location protected from the out of doors world, she exposes, and captures, fifty years of violent memories and weaves them into a tapestry of unforgettable images. The room she inhabits whilst there may be referred to as The Queen of Peace Room; it becomes, for her, a room of sanctuary. She examines Newfoundland in the 1940s and 1950s and New York in the 1960s; her confrontations with violence, incest, and rape; the devastating lack of friends to AIDS; and the relationship between life and art. These memories she finds stored alongside memories of nature’s images of trees pulling themselves up from their roots and fleeing the forest; storms and ley lines, and skies bursting with star-like eyes.

In The Queen of Peace Room, from a very personal point of view, Magie Dominic explores violence against women in the second one half of the twentieth century, and in doing so unearths the memory of a generation. In eight days, she captures half a century.

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