‘Hipster Psychosis’ (2021, mixed media on paper)
I’ve long seen my works as successive chapters in a book I can never complete, because it is lived in.
Thus ‘Hipster Psychosis’ is the latest ‘chapter’. I think what has motivated this drawing more than anything is the ‘post lockdown’ ‘back to normal’ culture, which feels like back to the split realities of life that emerged in the 2010s, but more intensified.
I thought a lot about the title, and I thought often about changing it, but finally felt it was right to leave it like a nail stuck out of a piece of wood. Just for this once.
John B Ledger 