Group-Analytic Contexts, Issue 81, September 2018

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Home for severely disabled people so caring for people rather than
trees became his life's pursuit.
Marcus was simultaneously very serious and wildly funny.
In his scruffy black leather jacket, old jeans and long hair, he
exemplified the angry youth of the 80s when unemployment had
begun to be a big problem for his generation. Before he found the
nursing work that was to be the beginning of a life devoted to helping
others, I made several drawings of Marcus.
I asked him to pose as if he was shouting at a passing
limousine, to enact 'the out of work' boy yelling at a symbol of
privilege passing him by. I have lost those drawings but discovered a
woodcut print in a drawer created from the sketches. It is called
'School Leavers' and apart from a plump boy in the foreground,
Marcus is distinctly recognisable as all the other characters in the
print.