What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room
be symbolic of a lifetime?
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 writer -- and frees herself from
the memories of her violent past.
On an eight-day retreat with Catholic nuns in a remote location
safe from the outside world, she exposes, and captures, fifty years
of violent memories and weaves them into a tapestry of
unforgettable images. The room she inhabits while there is called
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 loss 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 perspective,
Magie Dominic explores violence against women in the second 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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