I can’t believe the words of my prophets any more.Maxims which I once held to be true now seem as irrelevant as those biblical quotes written in the skies on faded photographs. Maybe, if the prophets are ever relevant again mine will be among them and their words will be written in the sky.Paul Carter
Paul Carter was an artist who taught at Edinburgh College of Art. His residency with Deveron Projects was during the summer in 2000.
What constitutes waiting, and what do we wait for? It is an (in)action performed daily on a personal, local and universal scale – but what is its meaning? It is connected to the past, present and future, and implies a period of dormancy, staying in one place. What is meditated upon during this period? Is there a sense of hope? Fear? Uncertainty? Or is there some greater personal investment in waiting, something spiritual and existential? And, what changes happen to us and our surroundings while we wait – do we enter into a motor-survival instinct, removed from the luxe, calme et volupté of everyday life by the set of blinkers imposed by waiting for a specific thing? This suggests that while waiting may be physically inactive, it is mentally turbulent…
