Author Archives: John B Ledger

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.”

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

Touching on the symbolic; visiting a place to try to help put a closure on a stage of my life

My recent move to London was much needed for disparate reasons, but more than any, because the course my life has taken during the past 10-12 years has served its time, and has run out of energy. As I say in the previous post, life is just a series of shimmies away from the pits/totalContinue reading “Touching on the symbolic; visiting a place to try to help put a closure on a stage of my life”

Drawing in situ at P A N D E M I C York

I took part in York this weekend just gone.  P A N D E M I C, inspired by the Situationist movement (notably the philosopher Guy Debord, who wrote Society of the Spectacle), invites anybody to come along, to perform, discuss, or whatever they feel they want to do. But it is also an environmentContinue reading “Drawing in situ at P A N D E M I C York”

Borderline Ballardian

Group art exhibition Curated by Globalsapiens C.A.D.S. – 7 Smithfield, Sheffield Date: Friday 6th July – 18th July 2012 Bordeline Ballardian is an exhibition of works that questions and observes British society and the psychological effects of technological, social and environmental developments.The word ‘Ballardian’ originates from the works of British novelist, James Graham Ballard andContinue reading “Borderline Ballardian”

The Mary Rose: we are sinking (installation)

 “The (Diamond) jubilee has made the union jack more unavoidable than perhaps any time since the war” Owen Hatherley   This installation was for the exhibition Borderline Ballardian, at Creative Arts Development Space, Sheffield. When thinking about the proximity of dystopian forewarnings to the present tense the visuals of fabricated national pride featured very frequently, as aContinue reading “The Mary Rose: we are sinking (installation)”