#ballard
Last week I published a new essay exploring the links between the 1956 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition ‘This is Tomorrow’, Pop Art, Brutalism and the specualtive fiction of J.G Ballard. You can read all 3000 odd words of it here:
There is also a design aspect to this project, including typography inspired by Edward Wright, used on some book covers for Ballard. But more on that soon.
My past blog posts on ‘This is Tomorrow’ can be found here:http://theoinglis.tumblr.com/tagged/this%20is%20tomorrow
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Bold prediction to a worst-case scenario in the time of the Covid-19 where technology fails people and they reverse to basic instincts. This is what Ballard wrote in his amazing novel “Highrise” in 1975 after power went out in the fictional high-tech housing plex, while tenants slowly descended into chaos because they couldn’t live peacefully without electricity.
The story was adapted into the 2015 movie starring Tom Hiddleston along with Sienna Miller and Jeremy Irons. Humans have this connection to technology where, once missing, it brings to the surface the inability of society to adapt and to live in harmony. This can be described as the forfeit of people to take back certain tasks and responsibilities to their core, where too much has been delegated to automation to the point of loosing any ability to recuparate it.
Can we turn to candle-making or to plow and harvest fields solely using our memory and hands? Perhaps only a small percentage share of population can do that, wether by trade or through inner passion; however, we are confined to become hopeless whenever a fuse goes off for a few hours. A lot of faith and our modern existence has been placed on electricity with everything else that comes with. The generations born into the digital age have forgotten how to use cursive because they don-t write that much, they type and we cannot blame them.
Survival in case of major power failure is held by certain moral standards of avoiding descending into panic. Composure of the masses will be the hardest task, but it’s what will lead us to safety should the worst-case scenario happen leaving us without technology for weeks, if not months.
The Cut Up chapter 025 torturing a super-man pag 206 of 1000 and something. A fueled burroughs and Ballard massi e upcoming comic book
Just spent the past few days on Henry Island in the San Juans - Hikes, beaches, animal sightings, star gazing, campfire stories, and trying to learn how to relax. Every trip I’ve taken here is such a dream, but also a challenge for me. I’m terrible at switching gears. I normally pour all of my energy into one creative project or another, so being told to just LIVE and enjoy myself, I’m like what do you mean? - TONIGHT I’m back in #seattle and performing in a FREE burlesque show at @bastilleseattle in #ballard ✨ - Hope to see some of you locals! (at Seattle, Washington)
My illustrations of Seattle’s neighborhood mascots, inspired by Japan’s regional mascots!
I’m printing 8x10s of them on pretty opalescent paper here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KittyCassandra?section_id=18071929&ref=shopsection_leftnav_4
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A quick sketch I didn’t finish out in Ballard yesterday, I forgot to take my sketchbook so I did it digitally.
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#artwork #illustration #ink #wip #painting #art #sketch #seattle #ballard #draw #drawing #doodle #kitchen #restaurant #chef #creative (at Ballard Farmers Market)
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I need to come back and paint it!
#art #ballardlocks #ballard #sketch #sketchbook #doodle #drawing #draw #lockes #landscape #paint #pleinair #painting #wip #ink #illustration #artwork (at Hiram M. Chittenden Locks - Ballard Locks)
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