The labour you love begins by changing direction. What begins as an essay on school refusal at an adolescent counselling centre becomes a description of the abrupt concluding of a psychologist’s relationships with his clients as the centre implements his redundancy in the face of pressure from a recession. The essay which moves towards a script for five people alternates between the psychologist’s internal voice and a narrator’s observations as the psychologist and his clients traverse their final conversations.

The labour you love was written as a response the visual arts residency undertaken by Sarah Tripp at an adolescent counselling Centre in Glasgow and supported by Culture and Sport Glasgow.