I knew it was coming, but it is with a heavy heart that I must report that JG Ballard has died.
I would make some kind of tribute, but I've already been doing so for years:
- This gallery has a four-part adaptation of a "novel" which Ballard originally planned to publish on billboards.
- This is an unabridged adaptation of "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan" from his greatest and most difficult novel, The Atrocity Exhibition.
- This is an adaptation of "You and Me and the Continuum", also unabridged, also from The Atrocity Exhibition.
- My ugly tour bus photos seem "Ballardian" in a way. Certainly these ones.
I can only think of one or two other artists who have had such an influence on how I view the world, for better or for worse. I'm very sad he died.
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You, and only you, introduced me to this man's work. I genuinely appreciate it, and I join you in the sad. Beautiful pictures.
His ability to glean beauty from, not merely impose it upon, violence & disaster, is one of the reasons I love his work.
Goodbye J.G.
Sorry to hear it, PSP. My condolences.
Certainly few, if any writers, have left as many visionary fragments in my memory. I always see pictures when I think of Ballard, so it makes a lot of sense that this would be a writer you would get a lot from.
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