![The first panel in the 'Doing emails' webcomic shows a large round face looking a bit stressed, with slightly bloodshot eyes and a fleck of spittle dropping from a down-turned mouth. Text bubbles at the top and bottom of the panel say: "Your eyeballs are dry. Somehow "doing emails" has become your job"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/600877b7-a0a5-4188-b19a-a5f181ea0748_emailpanel1.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![In panel two of 'Doing emails' webcomic, the same face appears in the top left of the frame with a determined expression. Most of the panel is filled by the character's 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"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/4a25d6b6-5415-406e-aefe-91a862583588_emailpanel2.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel three of the webcomic 'Doing emails' shows a close-up of three fingers poised over the keys of a keyboard. Tiny additional fingers, complete with fingernails, sprout from each of the three large fingers. The tiny fingers reach out like plant tendrils in different directions exploring the keyboard. The text bubble under the fingers says: "you trace the edges of the squares"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/3f266575-7286-4f64-87de-8ab94977c6ab_emailpanel3.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel four of the webcomic 'Doing emails' shows the intersection of four keys on a keyboard. Small globular 'organisms' with smiley faces emerge from the spaces beneath and between the keys, floating upwards. Small speech bubbles come from some of the creatures say things like "iik", "kz" and "ea". Bubbles of text flow across the panel saying: "And they respond with beads of electricity and proto-words and movement"](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/ca427675-b300-4bc1-bb00-cebbd12055ed_emailpanel4.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![Panel 5 of the webcomic 'Doing emails' shows the same downcast figure slumped over a keyboard. Their large hands have expanded to 9-10 fingers on each hand and several smaller fingers sprout from the larger fingers. The huge hands rest on an equally large and distorted keyboard with undulating keys. Two similar keyboards appear in each of the top corners of the panel, as if wrapping around the figure. The text bubble at the top of the panel says: The plastic bending in pleasure. Fingers buzzing](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/1a0124cf-58d2-4ff6-929a-1106920e0ca2_emailpanel5.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
![The sixth and final panel of the webcomic 'Doing emails' shows a figure looking at their large and distorted hand while reaching out their tongue towards a tiny globule on the tip of one of their fingers. The giant hand has 12 fingers flexing in different directions and more tiny globules can be seen attached to the back of their hand. The text bubbles at top and bottom of the panel say: "No smell, no taste, no touch, no poetry to a work email. Fantasy or dissociation the only bearable options."](https://images.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/d5a2e330-da8f-49dd-9d00-0e0d1e75d9df_emailpanel6.jpg?w=1338&auto=compress%2Cformat&rect=&q=100)
Doing emails. © 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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