That there were people we couldn't believe back to living.

"These are the original watercolours for a zine about the work mad people do for each other: how we love each other in a system that fails us. Mental health service users/survivors exist in a system where we are seen as fundamentally unreliable witnesses to our own lives and needs. The way we care for each other in life and the way we grieve each other in death is shaped by resisting that view of ourselves, the love and the anger it leaves us with."--Text provided by the artist.

"Please note this work references suicide bereavement, but there are no descriptions of suicide methods."--Text provided by the artist.

[London] : Rachel Rowan Olive, [2021]

1 painting : kuretake gansai watercolour, silk thread, ink pen on 200gsm clairefontaine goldline cold-pressed watercolour paper ; 24 x 32 cm

Complemented by (work): Believing. (b33412078)

The title has been taken from wording on the object.

The watercolours do not have individual titles but the order of the works should be maintained as in the zine.

Original watercolour for the zine: Believing: a zine about love and loss among the mad. Also held by Wellcome Collection.

Wellcome Collection 3348573i.10

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