Safe for work

Series

First two panels from the comic 'Doing emails'. In the first panel, a large round face looks a bit stressed, with slightly bloodshot eyes and a fleck of spittle dropping from a down-turned mouth. The text bubbles at the top and bottom of the panel say: "Your eyeballs are dry. Somehow "doing emails" has become your job". In panel two the same face appears in the top left of the frame with a determined expression. Most of the panel is filled with their disproportionately large hands resting on an equally large keyboard. Four small round faces with gradually changing expressions float along the top of the panel in a line. The final face has closed eyes and a sad, tired expression. A bubble of text under the large hands says: "Taking a moment to feel your fingers on the keyboard".

Doing emails. © Rob Bidder for Wellcome Collection.

‘Safe for Work’ is a series of fleetingly erotic stories – without the sex. These sensory fantasies, in which bodies, objects and natural phenomena behave in unexpected ways, also express feelings of alienation and frustration that result from the confines of different working environments.

Comic

Doing emails

A person pauses while typing an email, sensing their fingers resting on the keys...

Comic

Unpaid break

Taking a break at work, you look out of the window and feel...

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Nutmeg

The barista's nutmeg seed...

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Egg Inc.

Are there better ways of expressing power in the workplace and in our relations with each other?

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Your uniform

How do you dress for work...?

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Endless growth

Sometimes work just feels endless...

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Every day

Dreaming about days lost to work...

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Cooperative

When we can work things out together...