farfarout.art™ · original artwork

Simple Psych

One picture of the psychiatric system, made twenty-one times. Read it left to right, first version to last.

Simple Psych, panels 1 to 4: the first versions, a cutaway drawing of a psychiatric hospital run as an assembly line. Panels 4 to 7: the same building redrawn, with a police drop-off, admission rooms and a pill distribution wing. Panels 8 to 11: further versions of the same scene. Panels 11 to 14: further versions, each ending at a family gathered around a coffin. Panels 15 to 18: the last of the dense, machine-like versions. Panels 18 to 21: the scene redrawn in clean, bright lines. The final panel adds a figure holding a sign that reads “Never stop fighting”.

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The piece

A time-lapse of one artist's engagement with psychiatry and its institutions: the same scene drawn again and again until it says what it has to say.

Large
16 ft × 12 in, mounted on Laurentian birch
Medium
7 ft × 5¼ in, mounted on Laurentian birch
Small
4 ft × 3 in print, rolled and mailed
Price
On request
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