Calling in depressed today

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An art peice where there is a repetition of images where people are sitting at office cubicles facing each other, with the backside of a single person standing in the foreground and a wall of text in the background

Artist: Carolyn Lee-Jones
Year: 2015
Medium: Shadow box
Artist Statement: This shadow box juxtaposes the personal nature of madness with the public nature of work to explore the complex process behind deciding whether to disclose a Mad identity in the workplace. Ultimately, this piece challenges current understandings of madness, work and disclosure to consider mad positive alternatives in the workplace that benefit mad people as well as their employers.