When you are at the opening night of an exhibition, a book launch, or even just scrolling through Twitter and spot some distant acquaintance has won an award, you are likely to witness a flood of congratulatory messages. But what you are not hearing is the sound of somebody’s soul shattering as they fall into a pit of destructive self-comparison.
‘Even though people don’t talk about it, it is a Thing,’ said artist Lily Mae Martin.
