Category Archives: Writing
Straight A’s announcement!
I can finally unveil the books and collaborate album that have been made to mark my upcoming exhibition in January of 2026. For those people who bought them as perks by contributing to my crowdfunder, I will be delivering/sending them asap. But I’m planning to make the rest available on the opening of the exhibition!Continue reading “Straight A’s announcement!”
London, October: in search of meaningful rebeginning
St Pancras to Kings Cross station Walking from St Pancras to Kings Cross, I’m eager not to keep John waiting in the train station bar, but also to not appear out of the sync with the pace of London. There is also an anxiety about ‘getting it right’, not missing another sailing ship. Coming toContinue reading “London, October: in search of meaningful rebeginning”
Straight A’s book and album crowdfunder
This fundraiser brings together 3 things that mean a hell of a lot to me. Firstly, this is the first opportunity to put together a properly printed book that others can buy and read. The writing is milestone writing for me, it marks something. It is also that this book will mark an upcoming exhibitionContinue reading “Straight A’s book and album crowdfunder”
Downer at the door
It’s creeping in again, it’s such a familiar pattern now. A few social interactions that left an unwelcome aftertaste, alongside too much repetition of habits you now fear will be written on your tombstone (if you get one), and the aftertaste begins to spread to all corners of your skull. Normal habit would be toContinue reading “Downer at the door”
Novara Media’s ‘2024, the year that ‘Woke’ died…’
So the reason I wanted to think about this on my blog, as opposed to writing about it on a social media feed is for how easy it is to fall fowl when using certain language on there. We all know that. Indeed this is exactly what Novara are discussing in their 2024 round-up. WokeContinue reading “Novara Media’s ‘2024, the year that ‘Woke’ died…’”
2025
What’s your favorite cartoon? I’m going to say Earthworm Jim I used to get up on school holidays in the UK in 1996 and watch it religiously. What I remember most fondly is it’s almost Monty Python-esq surrealism. most notably when the theme tune just randomly stopped, and we saw Jim snoring on a hammock,Continue reading
Artistic rites of passage
As I walk past someone my age, with their near-teenage offspring, I am thrown into a state of hasty self-evaluation. Before I know it I’m putting together emotional scaffolding from whatever I can recall – a random song I wrote 17 years ago, ot an obscure blog where I said something I thought was smart.Continue reading “Artistic rites of passage”
If you didn’t need sleep, what would you do with all the extra time? Figure out how to love
John B Ledger 