82 pages
182 mm x 128 mm
90 mm cover flaps
Format: Paperback
ISBN 978-1-9993276-0-6
£12 (£2 p&p)
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Special Edition
Book + 3 x hand-coloured A4 prints
Edition of 15 Signed and numbered
£40 (£2 p&p)
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Suppose a Collapse Lucie McLaughlin
I grew up watching films
with my mum. One of the most affecting was Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies. We laughed and
cried, whilst watching a mother and daughter, on their respective sofas, watch
tv and smoke fags. My dreams are the offbeat moments in
these fictions where I smoke with my mum. I yearn for the imperfect feelings of
familial harmony in Secrets and
Lies, a meal eaten at a table, unacquainted people brought
together.
Suppose A
Collapse arranges
moments between two cities, each viewed through the lens of the other,
intimately mapping the interiors of a fourth floor flat in Madrid and the
childhood bedroom of a three-bed semi in Belfast. Memoir, poem and essay
combine to form a collection of experiences based on the author’s changing
relationship with her absent father, extended ‘(non)family’ and mother, while film
and art inform the movement between lucidity and a fracturing present. How many
times can we fold up our lives into smaller and smaller shapes until there’s no
room anymore, only the one that we’re in?
Lucie
McLaughlin is an artist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her work has been
published in Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, California, performed at
Raven Row, London and exhibited at Lily Robert Gallery, Paris. She is
currently on the MLitt Art Writing at Glasgow
School of Art.
Suppose A Collapse perplexes and entices all at once. There is so much to unearth in the looming silence of an absent father, the steaming alleyways of old Belfast, the turquoise pools of Madrid. A generous writer coming into her power, McLaughlin captures the flux and frenetic cadence of youth without neglecting quiet moments of beauty, which she tends to with cinematic detail.
182 mm x 128 mm
90 mm cover flaps
Format: Paperback
ISBN 978-1-9993276-0-6
£12 (£2 p&p)
Special Edition
Book + 3 x hand-coloured A4 prints
Edition of 15 Signed and numbered
£40 (£2 p&p)
Suppose a Collapse Lucie McLaughlin
I grew up watching films
with my mum. One of the most affecting was Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies. We laughed and
cried, whilst watching a mother and daughter, on their respective sofas, watch
tv and smoke fags. My dreams are the offbeat moments in
these fictions where I smoke with my mum. I yearn for the imperfect feelings of
familial harmony in Secrets and
Lies, a meal eaten at a table, unacquainted people brought
together.
It hurts, I said. It’s like the storm in my head broke the thunder directly
above my flat, the lightning half a second before.
Suppose A
Collapse arranges
moments between two cities, each viewed through the lens of the other,
intimately mapping the interiors of a fourth floor flat in Madrid and the
childhood bedroom of a three-bed semi in Belfast. Memoir, poem and essay
combine to form a collection of experiences based on the author’s changing
relationship with her absent father, extended ‘(non)family’ and mother, while film
and art inform the movement between lucidity and a fracturing present. How many
times can we fold up our lives into smaller and smaller shapes until there’s no
room anymore, only the one that we’re in?
Lucie
McLaughlin is an artist from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her work has been
published in Faultline Journal of Arts and Letters, California, performed at
Raven Row, London and exhibited at Lily Robert Gallery, Paris. She is
currently on the MLitt Art Writing at Glasgow
School of Art.
www.luciemclaughlin.com
Suppose A Collapse perplexes and entices all at once. There is so much to unearth in the looming silence of an absent father, the steaming alleyways of old Belfast, the turquoise pools of Madrid. A generous writer coming into her power, McLaughlin captures the flux and frenetic cadence of youth without neglecting quiet moments of beauty, which she tends to with cinematic detail.
–Meadhbh McNutt
Through acutely described moments from different locations and times Suppose a Collapse literally collapses thoughts, locations, sensations and artistic endeavour into each other. Spatial and temporal displacement becomes a fulcrum through which McLaughlin grapples with the bringing into consciousness of experience and histories. Her writing enacts an explorative process that is strikingly grounded in situational specificity; in sensations of air, light, texture and spatiality.
–Helen Robertson
I read Suppose A Collapse all the way through in one go - and loved it! The audacious mix of memoir, poetry, essay is as compelling as it is convincing. Some of the details - such as those relating to mosquitos - are pin sharp, other parts take on those hallucinatory qualities I remember from being off school ill with a fever. It will be a book that rewards second reading.
- Angus Carlyle
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