Theprocess03
March-May2008
The process 03 live streaming, Gordon
Carter painting five new paintings. The present series of paintings are
dedicated to several serious issues confronting the entire world as a unified
society, though the emphasis here is on the personal responsibility of the
individual in relation to the global problems. Gordon presents this from the
select perspective of personal guilt and shame arising from a sensation of helplessness
in the face of the magnitude of the issues and which is contributing to the
individual’s inability to take real action to overcome these global problems.
In the foundation of the concept of the these paintings is the idea that global
change is not made by governments, but rather by the billions of individuals
who have all taken personal responsibility for their own actions and then make
a change; a change which, no matter how apparently microscopic, will indeed
eventually be felt in the context of the global equation. The paintings take
the issue of personal guilt as a starting point, that one may already realize
the issues being presented, however despite this awareness and agreement over the
issues, he still continues to remain inactive, carrying on with many daily
activities that help to aggravate the problems; if these activities are
directly influencing the dimension of the problems and the individual is aware
of this and does nothing, then if he is in possession of a conscience, it can
be expected that he would indeed feel some sense of guilt for his own
contribution to these problems. The paintings also deal with the shame that one
may also experience over these issues if he makes these connections, and the
sensation that this is something so far beyond the individual; something that
began long before him, and that will continue long after he is gone, leaving him
with the feeling of knowing exactly what the problems are, and being totally
helpless in his real desire to do something to overcome them. Gordon takes this
as his foundation here, applying this to himself as a model for others to
question themselves; but he does this also to suggest that even the act of
talking about these things is indeed an action to help make things better. That
even though this may seem insignificant and futile, this small action is
actually going to impact in ways that cannot be foreseen. His idea is that the
individual is in fact responsible for all the issues in the world; the world is
like a massive algebraic equation, in which the changing of any variable in a
positive or negative sense will in fact instantaneously change the entire
equation positively or negatively despite the insignificance of that change. In
this way, all are responsible, for every individual has the opportunity to
change the entire world in a moment, though he may choose not to through the lack
of faith in his own power.
These paintings will be presented at the
M-Tel exhibition and competition in Plovdiv Bulgaria
The Process
03 is the third version of this project. It begins on Sunday, March 30, 2008,
the current live streaming exhibition with Gordon Carter lasts until May 2008.
Following will be
other live
performances and exhibitions. For more information and to watch or make contact
with the project go to www.the-process.net
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