Drawings – Page 5 – John B Ledger

Works of 2017

I’ve gone back to study this year. After years of wrangling over whether to go back or not, I finally decided that I had nothing to lose by doing so. Additionally, it has enabled me to have a bit more thinking space, away from working 5 days a week. Because no matter what job youContinue reading “Works of 2017”

“Monster” (2017)

Manifesto For The just-about-managing

The Manifesto for The Just-about-managing (2017, mixed media on paper).

21st Century Limbo-id Men

21st Century Limbo-id Men (2017, mixed media on paper)

Dead Ethics Hysteria

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”

Untitled (2017)

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”

After The Sugar Rush

(2016, mixed media on paper) My last drawing of 2016. Literally finished at 11:20pm on December 31st.

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.