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A book of still frames: short, precise moments in which something quietly changes direction. Written by visual artist Joanna Potepa, this collection moves through Spain, the UK, Poland and Portugal, gathering scenes from roads, homes, stairwells and everyday thresholds. A woman packs her life into a silver Mazda and drives the length of the Iberian Peninsula. Between the Spanish chapters, other stories surface - from Poland, from England - loosely attached, like still frames from a parallel life. A white peacock crosses a country road. A flamenco dancer sets the floor on fire. A plush giraffe refuses to help at a toll gate. A man dies at four in the morning while his favourite music keeps playing. Some are sharp. Some are absurd. Most are both. Blending text, observation and an artist's eye for structure, It Happened. Make of It What You Will is a book about attention, movement, memory and the small moments that alter the course of a life. No moral. No chronology. No instructions.

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""You don't take this in one go. You read it slowly. In stages. Because how do you not stop after the white peacock?"" - Bea - first reader, teacher and traveller

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Joanna Potepa is a Polish visual artist and writer living between Spain, the UK and Poland. She works in geometric stippling and writes in still frames - short, true scenes where something quietly shifts. It Happened is her first book. Her work moves between drawing, photography and text, always returning to what is real, observed and quietly transformative.www.joannapotepa.com

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