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My delusion wasn’t shared

Artwork by Andrew Field

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Panel 1 of a four-panel comic called My delusion wasn't shared'', consisting of thick black line drawing on a mottled grey background. Two figgures sit opposite each other on chairs, either side of a long table. A figure with short hair and glasses stands at the end of the table, looking out at the viewer. Speech bubles from each of the seated figures say "The Holy Spirit" and "You are Him". Behind the text in each of hte speech bubbles is a daub of pale pink colour. A thought bubble from the standing figure contains black horizontal lines like a musical stave with daubs of colour (green, purple and orange) like notes asecending the 'stave'.
Panel 2 of a four-panel comic called My delusion wasn't shared'', consisting of thick black line drawing on a mottled grey background. A young man with short hair, glasses and large round black eyes stares out at the viewer. A block of text above him says "Then one of the women left, and I struck up a conversation with the woman sittng closer to me. At which point I said,". A thought bubble comes from the figure containing narrow horizontal lines like a musical stave. Across the 'stave' are three daubs of colour (green, purple and orange) ascending like musical notes across the 'stave'. Below the thought bubble is a speech bubble coming from the figure's mouth, which says "I feeel like your aura is red".
Panel 3 of a four-panel comic called My delusion wasn't shared'', consisting of thick black line drawing on a white background. The head of a young woman with shoulder length hair, glasses and large black eyes stares out at the viewer. She has a blank expression and there are pale grey lines scribbled across the drawing of her face. Beneath her the text reads "And the way she looked at me".
Panel 4 of a four-panel comic called My delusion wasn't shared'', consisting of thick black line drawing on a white background. A zig-zag of mottled grey is spread across the panel like a random paint brush stroke. On top of this are seven narrow horizontal black lines like a musical stave. Three daubs of colour (green, purple and orange) ascend across the 'stave' like musical notes. Randomly spread above and below the 'stave' are written question marks. The text at the top of the panel reads "Suggested my psychosis wasn't shared [word underlined]. She had no idea what I was talking about.
My delusion wasn't shared. © Andrew Field for Wellcome Collection.

About the artist

Black and white photograph of the head of a young white man with short dark hair and large black-framed glasses. He is smiling and looking into the camera.

Andrew Field

(he/him)

Andrew Field is a cartoonist, poet, singer-songwriter and librarian based in Southeast Michigan. He is currently finishing up a graphic novella about living with schizophrenia called ‘The Light-Haunted Museum’, which can be found on his website.