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Lisa Wallace

@rwillowfish.bsky.social
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I talk about my own mental illness treatment and psychiatrists and psychotherapy. I post my art, which is nicely odd and deep and poorly planned out, which is its greatest strength.

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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
on a psych unit prison pens and paper bags for drawing no door on the bathroom, no showering after 9pm no phone, no coffee, no pajamas (glad it was brief; glad to be back home)
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
destroy
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
journal drawing "Please Reject Me"
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
journal drawing "Cat, Don't Leave Me Yet"
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Here's a bunch of other thumbnails of my art.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This is what a year of psychotherapy is like.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
journal drawing "Feeling is the Meaning"
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
cooking
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
coffee space (lime optional)
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
journal drawing "Overanalyzing Myself"
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Got a proper haircut at a salon instead of whacking away with scissors at home.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Saw this on Xitter and it's my favorite meme of it so far.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
journal drawing "Sex Dream"
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The Dance of the Blue Sharks
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Oldest selfie on my phone
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
journal drawing "Futile Masking"
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Some food that thankfully I already had cooked, so just a warming up. Because I feel like crap.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
journal drawing "Woke with a Start"
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Oh, wow, just realized that 23 years ago today I got clean and sober. Look at those cool cannabis leaf beads strung on my mirror. That was before. Ha! Good ol' days. That's the porch of the house where I lived in Oakland, CA. Smoked a lot of cigarettes out there.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I haven't been her for awhile. If you knew Audrey, unfortunately she died last month. I miss her terribly. That spicy tabby ran this house, and now I do it but I'm boring.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
and these
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
more depictions of psychotherapy along with life and sorrow and freeing myself and still being bound up in other parts
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
What is good psychotherapy like for me, you ask? journal drawing: "The Precious and the Edges"
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Sometimes my meds cause my blood pressure to drop and I'm dizzy for a period of time. This doesn't happen often. To me, it's a tolerable adverse effect. It's tolerable because my other choice is plunging back down into depression. I wonder what others find to be tolerable adverse effects.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
the lovely sun
cat sits in the sun at the windowcat reaches up for the sun at the window
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
time to cook
broccoli, cherry tomatoes, and peppers on the counter, on a cutting board, and in the sink in a collander
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
fabulous Audrey Jane
photo of tabby cat with green eyes and an intense stare
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is Monet's signature.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Audrey's appreciating the nice sun.
photo of tabby cat sitting in the sun streaming in on the balcony with a look of bliss on her face
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Oh! Hi, Audrey.
photo of tabby cat sticking her face up to the camera so much so that only one eye and her nose are showing
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Jumping around the sofa and out the door - busy afternoon for Audrey
photo of tabby cat between pillows and the sofa arm about to leap outphoto of the same tabby cat outside on the balcony looking in on a very sunny afternoon
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The sketches did their part in getting me going. Then I spent a lot of time in details and colors. Then I was done. 4/4
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
When I stalled for a long, long, long time, I switched over to sketches based on the painting so far. This was to get myself going again. 3/4
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I started with a primed canvas and some quick sketching with burnt sienna on a brush. Little did I know how much I'd stay with my initial design. 2/4
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Hard Stories to Tell (38"x 30" acrylic painting) I just finished this painting, a piece I started way back during pandemic quarantine. I've worked on it sporadically, then much more consistently in recent weeks until I said stop, it's done. 🧵of start to finish, if you're interested. 1/4
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
late day sun
photo of tabby cat sitting on brown packing papers with a sun strip illuminating one eye
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
shadow cat
photo of tabby cat laying in stripe shadows on the balcony
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
sweet baby Audrey Jane
photo of tabby cat with a gentle expression laying in her bed
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This painting is getting near completion.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Do you want out, Audrey? Do you like being out? Do you want to come in?
3 photos of the same tabby cat here and in this first one, she’s standing in front of the open balcony door second photo shows tabby cat out on the balcony in the sun looking upthird photo shows tabby cat moving on in the door past me with her head distorted bigger than the rest of her body
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
4 weeks ago - -> now (not finished; still a work in progress)
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I thought we'd already relegated cod liver oil to the past.
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I’m at the auto shop having an exciting time.
photo of me, brown-haired woman wearing glasses, squinting in the sun with blue and beige of building behind me
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Today’s activities include a tire pressure adjustment because that indicator light is on, grocery shopping, and more painting. I speak only for myself, not Audrey, who I think is planning to nap.
photo of tabby cat curled up in her blanket nest in the living room with my painting and paints and brushes in the background
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Waiting for the coffee to wake me up so I feel more sociable. (photo by Robert Frank)
black and white photo of 5 women drinking coffee and smoking in a cafe, maybe in the 1960s, with signs about food costing like 15 cents for pie
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
teefs
photo of tabby cat sticking her head out of a play cube and showing her bottom teeth with part of a painting in the background depicting toothy sea creatures
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Fears
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
When there's so much to worry about, cats don't.
meme collection of 4 photos of a white cat wearing sunglasses and a headscarf and sipping teas and coffiees in front of an erupting volcano, and a tsunami and explosions and a shark coming out of the water
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I went to art club this morning.
drawing of a person with ghosts coming out of their head and a flying person also with ghosts coming out of their head
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Lisa Wallace @rwillowfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Sweet Audrey, or at least insistent Audrey, is keeping basic functioning in operation while I spend the day feeling like crap.
photo of tabby cat sitting next to a blue fabric cat tunnel
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