The Democratic Umbrella – 2012, biro on paper, 100x130cm
Author Archives: John B Ledger
“I wanted to know the exact dimensions of hell”
Why Eating disorders are caused by the totality of global capitalism, not just advertising The distorted perception of my body that occurs often when I catch a glimpse of my image reflection in a window, always drags me backwards, drags me toward my teenage years; the existential fears of those years. Once here I amContinue reading ““I wanted to know the exact dimensions of hell””
Some of my work is showing at The Audacious Art Experiment, Sunday 18th March Audacious Space, Harwood Street, Sheffield, 2pm – 10pm FEATURING:: John Ledger ExhibitionBen NashFormer BulliesJack AllettIrma VepCKDH EVENT LINK HERE £4 DonationBYOB WORK WILL ALSO BE UP FOR THE MARCH 31ST EVENT…….
Ghosts
Alongside the inner ring road in my home town is a skeletal structure which, to a visitor to the town, looks like a building on its way to completion. Yet to anyone who who isn’t just passing by they know that this structure has been in its current form for nearly 4 years.Its skeletal stateContinue reading “Ghosts”
The Quintessential Young Person-alienation That Now Carries on Into Later Life
Do you feel like an angst-ridden teenager at 28? Which no confirmation of true age, when confronted with an ever-more aging face staring back at you from every reflection, can eradicate? With the ever-mounting pressure to remain young, to be hip, adventurous and to be eternally striving to advance oneself and be ‘living’ the highContinue reading “The Quintessential Young Person-alienation That Now Carries on Into Later Life”
Who Would Want To Listen To This?
Who Would Want To Listen To This? (2011/2012) Biro on paper, 130X100cm The piece is called ‘Who would want listen to this?’ because such big threats of an ecological collapse which would cause unimaginable disruption and destruction are often too frightening for us to think about (only previously seen by our eyes on cinema screens),Continue reading “Who Would Want To Listen To This?”
2012: Dedicated to all humans
I used to find In Rainbows the most difficult album to listen to by Radiohead. Not because I found it a worse album than the rest of the (post Pablo honey) albums, just because there was something I found deeply uncomfortable about it, a truth in it that I couldn’t/or didn’t want to acknowledge rightContinue reading “2012: Dedicated to all humans”
In the City…
Pandemic – Sheffield
Event of great importance ‘beginning’ in Sheffield this Nov 5Th.”Reclaim reality reclaim space!” Here is some information regarding the reasons for Pandemic, and it’s aims. PANDEMIC!Pronunciation:/panˈdɛmɪk/adjective – (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.noun – an outbreak of a pandemic disease.Origin: -mid 17th century: from Greek pandēmos (from pan ‘all’ +Continue reading “Pandemic – Sheffield”
A Past Returning To Haunt and all Roads Forward Blocked…(?)
A short story of my last 10 years. (an image took within January/February period of 2005, when I was 21) I began writing this (using ‘blind cell-phone-keying-in’, a skill picked up in a time of an information frenzy and endless precarity) whilst walking upon the Pennine hills to the west of the urban settlement IContinue reading “A Past Returning To Haunt and all Roads Forward Blocked…(?)”
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