21st Century Limbo-id Men (2017, mixed media on paper)
Author Archives: John B Ledger
Teresa Mayday (Writings From HMS Brexit)
This cut of HMS Brexit is a montage of considerations and conversations held in urban Yorkshire around Teresa May Day, 2017. The election promise of more bank holidays is perhaps the most worryingly feeble soundbite the Labour Party have pitted against May’s iron-agenda of “a vision of a man chipping ice off his windscreen andContinue reading “Teresa Mayday (Writings From HMS Brexit)”
Dead Ethics Hysteria
The driving force behind the direction of works like Dead Ethics Hysteria has its roots in a cold winter almost 7 years back. I remember my anticipations of the ‘austere age’ as we entered the winter of 2010. Back then my head was lead-lined with heavy expectations of imminent ecological collapse, peak oil, and freakContinue reading “Dead Ethics Hysteria”
Untitled (2017)
This isn’t even Ballard’s ‘Glorified Lifeboat’ (Writings From HMS Brexit)
This voyage, perhaps even whole flat earth that it navigates, has reached an end point. This is an epochal moment – yet we duck, dive, and talk about following our forefathers’ impossible footsteps into yesterdays’ jobs, homes and families, where hair goes grey and skin wrinkles with the pride of purpose. These footsteps lurch overContinue reading “This isn’t even Ballard’s ‘Glorified Lifeboat’ (Writings From HMS Brexit)”
Saturation Point
(2017, ink on paper)
Stuck in The Sediment of Suffering
(2017, mixed media on paper) I’m writing this in a world that is a week into the Trump administration. I can’t yet tell if it’s caused the biggest cloud of confusion and panic since the Twin Towers came down (it’s shock certainly eclipses the event that’s stuck in the middle of these – the financialContinue reading “Stuck in The Sediment of Suffering”
OK Computer at 20 VS the World in 2017
This coming May Radiohead’s 3rd studio album Ok Computer turns 20. I’ll begin bluntly: its either the greatest record to come into my life, or the most important. If a certain cluster of Pink Floyd albums are normally seen within a similar light, aided by their shared university-town beginnings, then it is with OK Computer’sContinue reading “OK Computer at 20 VS the World in 2017”
Mark Fisher – much more than a favourite writer
I’ll begin as humbly as I can. I’m a anxious character, who hasn’t quite yet figured out how to deal with criticism from others and the shame that often follows. This makes me uncomfortable paying respects to a writer who has inspired me as much as any other, aware of the gaping discrepancies in myContinue reading “Mark Fisher – much more than a favourite writer”
After The Sugar Rush
(2016, mixed media on paper) My last drawing of 2016. Literally finished at 11:20pm on December 31st.
John B Ledger 