J G Ballard’s Ghost

We’ve recently been posting images we made several days ago, in the order that we’ve been making them (we are about 5 days ahead of what we are currently posting), but we liked these images so much (we made them this morning) we’ve decided they can jump the cue. While we were making them we decided they were the illustrations for an imaginary J G Ballard story we started developing in our head, in tandem with creating these…

… in this story several rich woman, gathered on a sprawling estate, and wanting for nothing, but never happy…

… decide to kill their fat-cat husbands, and live without men…

… we never know if this is a local event, or part of some world-wide societal collapse…

… but, in a very short time…

… these woman are eating their dead husbands, and worshipping the forest and the lakes. In a few years they will all be carrying home-made weapons, and dressed in animal skins, and hunting men…

… if you are familiar with J G Ballard, you’ll know that, although he didn’t write this story, he used most of these elements in various stories he did write. There is often a lot of water in Ballards stories, and societal decadence/collapse.

One thought on “J G Ballard’s Ghost

  1. You’d need to set the castle somewhere along the route of the M25. And have a ragtag entourage appearing here and there, Mad Max-style, with a leader wearing a white tuxedo.

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