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Laurie Parsons is an artist whose practices moved between sculpture and social engagement. In 1993, she participated in the exhibition On Taking a Normal Situation and Re-translating it into Overlapping and Multiple Readings of Conditions Past and Present at M HKA as part of the year-long Antwerp 93 European Capital of Culture festival. For the exhibition, she produced a set of exact duplicates of her personal diary. From the first page, we understand that: “We pick we choose we fall. We’re caught in the circumstances.”, and from there we read all 120 dense hand-written pages about the artist’s hopes and anxieties. A year later, she quit making art altogether to become a social worker supporting homeless people and those with mental health conditions in her native city of Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.