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”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
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.
Now That’s what I Call Capitalism 2016
(A writing for the Retro Bar at The End of The Universe Collective) Apparently Generation Y arrived in January 1984. This means my sense of stuckness could be down being born in a generational hinterland. Actually no: we are all stuck, stuck in the deep mud between the end of something and something….something else, thatContinue reading “Now That’s what I Call Capitalism 2016”
Hope of The Nihilized
(2016, mixed media on paper, 90X125cm) This will probably be the last major piece of work I finish in 2016. The drawing attempts to look at the debased spirit of our times. If I were to give such a time a name I’d called it The Zeitgeist of Disbelief.
John B Ledger 