
Living room 2025 pencil on paper 30x42cm © 2026 Joanna Roberts. All Rights Reserved.

Thursday: 1) Windows looking out of greasy spoon cafe in Kentish Town 2) Haverstock Hill Road 2 doors down from #62 textural wood panels 2025 pencil on paper 30x42cm © 2026 Joanna Roberts. All Rights Reserved.

Her heart races up the hill further towards the dark 2025 pencil on paper 30x42cm © 2026 Joanna Roberts.All Rights Reserved.

A cloud mist contours the metropolis skyline 2025 pencil on paper 30x42cm © 2026 Joanna Roberts. All Rights Reserved.

Pacing a path that leads her on higher to show the city below 2025 pencil on paper 30x42cm © 2026 Joanna Roberts. All Rights Reserved.

Saturday: 4) A statue-still lady in cafe Kentish Town 2025 pencil on paper 30x42cm © 2026 Joanna Roberts. All Rights Reserved.
Drawn from an archive of photographs and images, these works function as projections from mise-en-scène, photojournal logs, ciné-roman captions, and reportage transcripts, translated onto the flat plane of paper as a screen.
Through the context of the quotidian, the drawings explore a lexicon of contents of the city environment through story. Inbetween polarities image and the gaze, voice and language, these tensions blur and unfold visual modes of meaning within this liminal space — the temporal intervals between events, in contrast with conventional narrative plot structure.
In a present era often described as “post-truth,” consciousness appears both factual and fabricated. Ethnographic approaches in photojournalism and technical devices from New Wave cinema — such as narrative voice devices guiding the plot — interact with the ways fiction and reality overlap. Together they simulate how we frame and interpret a nonlinear world.