Lucy Johnson – Reality Breakdown

Sometimes it can feel as though everything exists and is intertwined within the same space, like a living tapestry. The series, Reality Breakdown (published by Pearl Press, 2022), documents a fragile and ever changing sense of time, space and self. This body of work is a miscellany that tries to move gently through the subliminal moments between a memory and an idea, the superficial and the intangible, perception and materiality, capturing impressions that are forged behind a blinking eyelid.

Lucy Johnson (b.1986) is a UK artist who works in sound and visual art. Her work explores themes of the sublime, the mundane and the absurd in the human experience. She has self published two photo zines with imprint Pearl Press and her sound work has featured in The Wire, NTS Radio, Tusk Festival, Fact Magazine and Index Festival (Yorkshire Sculpture International). Alongside soundtracking her own visual art, she collaborates with artists of different disciplines in creating audio visual projects, some of which appear on ‘Soundtracks Vol.1’, released by Opal Tapes in 2020.

Reality Breakdown is released with a 36 minute soundtrack, available on Bandcamp.