Bobby Baker is a performance artist. During the years that she was enjoying some of her major successes, few people knew that she was suffering from a severe mental disease. That her public and private life were quiet separate worlds.
While she was being treated, and that lasted many years, she had made a strict rule: "...To do a diary drawing every single day I was there [the day centre]". Some of these drawings are now on display at the Gulbenkian Foundation, in an exhibition called "Mind Faces". They are colourful, they are frightening, they are beautiful, painful and revealing. And they make you think. A lot.
Top left: Yoga for weepers / Top right: Running away from depression
Bottom left: An anxious person / Bottom right: Pea crisis
The drawings were clearly a survival mechanism. Does doing a diary drawing every single day sound like doing a post every single day...?
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