A smartphone showing 2:57 a.m. and no notifications sits on a kitchen table while a muscular young man stands blurred at the worktop in the background, waiting late at night for a message.

Preparing to Leave

Young man sitting alone in a parked car at night, holding his head as rain falls on the windows.

The Song He Kept Playing

Older father with Alzheimer’s disease sitting beside his adult son in a care home, holding a newspaper near a photograph of his late wife.

When Can I Go Home?

An empty cot in a dim, misty nursery, evoking grief, absence and the ghostly memory of a lost baby.

The Empty Cot: Grief, Guilt, and the Ghost in the Nursery

Faded 1970s-style family holiday photograph outside a caravan, showing a working-class family from an earlier generation.

The Bag Is Still Open

A glass bottle on a study desk contains a miniature landscape of beach, mountains and a solitary figure, evoking R. D. Laing’s The Divided Self.

A Solitary Inhabitant of a Bottle

Abstract blurred silhouette with overlapping faces representing identity, memory, repetition and self-understanding in psychodynamic therapy.

Songs in Therapy: Youth

Surreal abstract artwork depicting a woman lying on her side beneath translucent layers of shimmering material, with warm orange, gold and pastel colours throughout.

I’m Really Sorry to Bother You

Empty chair on a London Underground Piccadilly line train, between two passengers, symbolising reflection and the hidden self

The Empty Chair

Red Kite circling high above a rural landscape, reflecting themes of parentification, responsibility and growing up too soon.

The Red Kite