’20 years from now I’ll make it, somehow’ was made in late 2007, and was quite a blatant showcase of all my anxieties about what humanity faces in the 21st century. Nearly 4 years on, we are still on the same track towards a right old mess. We still don’t have enough time in theContinue reading “20 Years From Now I’ll Make it, Somehow”
Author Archives: John B Ledger
Everything’s moving so fast that it seems that nothing can make a change.
It is so hard to stay in tune to the immanence of something. It’s so hard to know when things are happening for sure. I await confirmation but, partly because we don’t know and partly because we don’t want to know, it never arrives. Yet I get pangs of dread on days like this one:Continue reading “Everything’s moving so fast that it seems that nothing can make a change.”
ILL EQUIPPED
ILL EQUIPPED (2011) Pencil crayon on paper, 70X110cm The idea for Ill-Equipped was sparked by an article titled ‘pancake people’ in the Magazine Adbusters; a term used to described the mental make-up of humans being tossed around in the info-frenzied world of endless updated techno-gadgets: a wide, far-reaching, grasp of information (piling up on usContinue reading “ILL EQUIPPED”
The outer conflict reflects the inner conflict (thoughts and feelings after attending the march 26th anti-cuts demo)
(image courtesy of Carys Bryan) What is the right way to go about protesting against the capitalist system? This is the debate which has been at a deadlock in my mind since I returned from the Protests against the government Cuts on March 26th in London. The massive cuts to state welfare were the issueContinue reading “The outer conflict reflects the inner conflict (thoughts and feelings after attending the march 26th anti-cuts demo)”
Sleeping Screens
Why, I wondered, do I only notice Telescreens (the object itself, rather than what it is showing) when they are turned off? Looking up at the sleeping boxes as I enter the transport interchange, there was suddenly something more about their presence; they almost had a creepy presence as they hung above my head, andContinue reading “Sleeping Screens”
Global Ghetto, 2045, Marks The Centenary of The Defeat of Fascism
Global Ghetto, 2045, marks centenary of defeat of Fascism, (Biro on paper, 140x100cm, 2010/2011) I began making this drawing in November 2010, and have only just completed it. I began to develop the idea whilst sat in a café one afternoon. This is how the ideas begin: My expectations of a future under global capitalismContinue reading “Global Ghetto, 2045, Marks The Centenary of The Defeat of Fascism”
On Competitiveness
The idea of the survival of the best/the most competent has certainly been normalised in contemporary society – as opposed to the pre-Thatcher era when there was more (but not much more) emphasis on equality rather than the equality of opportunity which compresses our outlook now, which began to take hold under Thatcher here inContinue reading “On Competitiveness”
21st Century Schizoid Man
An image that will always stick with me is one which was on a video in an exhibition commemorating the holocaust, at the Imperial War Museum, London. In a well-meant diversion from the Jewish Holocaust, the video narrator spoke of all those other holocausts which have happened since then in the late 20th century, mainlyContinue reading “21st Century Schizoid Man”
I had to trawl through all the old household photo collection to find what I wanted; you know, photos from a time when they actually meant something, before images of everybody from every place at every time where splattered upon the social networking sites; you know, the times when it took a couple of weeksContinue reading
The Social Media Fat-Face application – a real cultural low point
So, yet again I find myself in a personal battle to abstain from the technological dictation of communication. Caught in a dilemma, knowing full-well that abstaining from the social networking sites will sever many social contacts but also never ever forgetting the miserable state of mind I sink into whilst scrolling up and down myContinue reading “The Social Media Fat-Face application – a real cultural low point”
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