Waiting with hope
Letterpress on a roll of toilet paper,
an experiment of the act of waiting
The paperwork was installed at a bus stop for a while. I picked a time when the bus service was not running and sat on the bench, waiting with the paperwork. It's odd that the paper moved around like a naughty child because of the wind force, playing with me all the time. I did not come out with any in-depth thought after doing this experiment, but only found out I feel much relieved while waiting with someone or something instead of waiting for a specific purpose.
Letterpress on the toilet paper
installed at bus stop
Letterpress on the toilet paper
When I printed the sentences on the paper, I was trying to make a conclusion of the video stories; meanwhile, I couldn't help but think about the current lockdown situation. It seems this year, we — humans — are involved in the biggest waiting time in the Anthropocene. We are waiting for a date all of the things go back to normal; we believe the day will come and we are waiting to see the end of it. To consider this, what we are doing is not so different from the landscape. Will we be able to see the day comes again? or all of the efforts will go down the drain? The future is unpredictable so what we can do is waiting: waiting on the landscape and waiting with hope.
A bus
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A squirrel
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A flow
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An eruption
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Is not
coming
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Tonight
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They came
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At dawn
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In the
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Ice Age
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During the
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Quaternary
They might
come
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Today
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or not
I will
wait
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Until
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Next morning
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Next spring
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The day
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comes
again
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The end of
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Anthropocene