![Panel one of the webcomic 'Unpaid break'. A character sits at a table in a work room with a noticeboard and a large window on the wall behind them. They are looking at a sandwich in their hand. The figure has a second smaller head emerging from the top of its main head, also looking, expressionless, at the sandwich. In foreground to the right of the frame is a close up of the character's two heads and the hand holding the sandwich. The speech bubble at the top of the panel says "You're counting how many unpaid breaks you've had altogether". Two other speech bubbles over the close up of the heads say "A year of your life?" and "Is that right?"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/9b4adc71-7083-4fa5-acae-e17544264de3_unpaidbreakP1.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel two of the webcomic 'Unpaid break'. The two round heads of the character are looking up out of a large window that fills two-thirds of the panel. Outside is a turquoise scky and three fluffy pink clouds. The bottom third of the panel is a yellow wall. A speech cloud in front of the wall says "Clouds bubble and arch and stretch".](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/7dfee6dc-e6ff-48fa-ae1c-b2e01018d4e7_unpaidbreakP2.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel three of the webcomic 'Unpaid break'. The two-headed character is floating in a large pink cloud that takes up half the panel. Just their outline is visible, lying horizontally, arms and legs outstretched. Below the cloud, in the turquoise blue sky the text bubbles say "You're in the cloud", "Cool wet mist", "Every nerve ending touched".](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/ef205086-6a79-44c0-a76f-a152cf33cf41_unpaidbreakP3.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel four of the webcomic "Unpaid break". the entire panel is taken up by pink fluffy cloud. A human hand shape is emerging in the centre, also made up of pink cloud. Two text bubbles say "You are a cloud", "You're swelling".](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/57a1028e-d57a-4ecd-9118-7cbabd4a3246_unpaidbreakP4.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 5 of the webcomic 'Unpaid break'. The whole panel is full of pink 'droplet' shapes falling downwards against a turquoise-sky background. Four text bubbles across the pannel say "Now you're rain", "All atomised selves", "A shower", "A spray".](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/ee5026aa-56a9-4e68-8ca0-ccc1907b0a10_unpaidbreakP5.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel six of the webcomic 'Unpaid break'. We are looking into the work room from panel one where the same two-headed character sits at a table looking down at their sandwich. Behind them is an open door, another table and lockers against the backwall. We are looking into the room through the window and between us and the room. purplish drips of rain slide down an invisible pane of glass. Two text bubbles say "Pouring down the break room window". "Observing self".](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/67222d0b-c3d3-402b-8e56-bf7862bc4462_unpaidbreakP6.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
Unpaid Break. © Rob Bidder for Wellcome Collection.
About the artist
Rob Bidder
Rob Bidder is an artist, person-centred counsellor and educator based in Glasgow.
Rob Bidder is an artist, person-centred counsellor and educator based in Glasgow.
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