The Place of Dead Ends (2013, biro and collage on paper, 120X100cm) The idea for The Place of Dead Ends fixed itself together whilst I was walking around the park-lands of Greenwich, London (a place saturated with popular history), in the autumn of 2012. I stumbled across the Queen Elizabeth [the 1st] Oak, a treeContinue reading “‘The Place of Dead Ends’”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
A Couple of Recent Psychogeographical Maps
These maps were made on Thursday in the Barnsley area (which I’ve mistakenly labeled as being on the 27th, when they were in fact on the 28th. I am making these maps as part of a psychogeographical project where I intend to explain back to myself the experience of inhabiting certain human landscapes I amContinue reading “A Couple of Recent Psychogeographical Maps”
Black Mirror/Utopia/2013
“2013 is unfolding real horror-show-like” said the protagonist Alex, as he sat back in a bubble of styles and tastes, mixed, and mashed together from decades gone, too alcoholically inebriated to care that the here and now is almost unidentifiable except for a general distinct lack of faith in everything” (Imagining the protagonist from AContinue reading “Black Mirror/Utopia/2013”
If One Noise Could Represent a Century…
(Note: my dark imagination got carried away here; it’s not really a blog that calls for optimism) Whenever I hear two particular sounds they emotionally grip me so intensely, because they seem much more than sounds that embody a time; they sound as if all elements of an entire era were being smashed together atContinue reading “If One Noise Could Represent a Century…”
Mind maps. Recounting experience of walk, by mapping out the route.
To follow up yesterday’s post, regarding leaving London and having to return to my home town, an incredibly less busy and noisy place, I have posted two maps I drew of routes I have walked, in order to show my thoughts and experience of that area whilst walking through it. One map is of aContinue reading “Mind maps. Recounting experience of walk, by mapping out the route.”
That my life doesn’t seem to grow and change is because time itself doesn’t seem to move things on anymore. Oh yes, things change, but it’s as if the entire world is speeding up its exchanging and obtaining of things already bygone. And when all that happens is that things are circulated faster and faster,Continue reading
Thinking along the Hallam Line (Leeds, Wakefield, Barnsley, Meadowhall and Sheffield)
Leeds Along with the Engineering of Leeds (my 4th town) into a (relative) economic powerhouse, there seems to have followed an almost identi-kit pasting of all the traits usually found in the big financial centres like the City of London, yet in a much smaller area circling the railway station (after which it begins againContinue reading “Thinking along the Hallam Line (Leeds, Wakefield, Barnsley, Meadowhall and Sheffield)”
The Planet’s Mental Illness
The Planet’s Mental Illness (2012, biro on paper, 105X145cm) The first thing I need to explain about this piece is why I chose the word planet instead of world; the latter being specific to humanity and all of its concerns, whilst the former describes everything that makes up the ball of rock, gas and liquidContinue reading “The Planet’s Mental Illness”
Long Stares That Never Reach Anywhere.
I am sat staring down a hillside, sat where I often sat when I worked here for 5 years, with my mp3, on shuffle function, playing out sounds from my last 10 years of accumulated music, staring as if looking for something in the manner in which I have so for as long as IContinue reading “Long Stares That Never Reach Anywhere.”
End of Year Haunting
Accompanying sound…. Ceremony – New Order Unite – Burial The Glorious Land – PJ Harvey One of These Days – Pink Floyd Born To End – Manic Street Preachers Dog Shelter – Burial 21st Century Schizoid Man – King Crimson Novelty (1st Transmission Session, Central Sound Studios July 1979)- Joy Division Temptation – Heaven 17
John B Ledger 