After entering the term into search engines and doing a soft search, i found out that stillness can also come from speed itself, and not from the opposite. As a matter of fact, it can be thought up like a wheel, spinning so fast that it appears motionless. I believe that this description of stillness might seem more accurate considering our lives in the modern society. It can be interpreted both positively and negatively, such as either being alert enough to be able to observe the stillness in all that complexity of the modern life or being so numb to be even aware of anything that is still. And when saying alert, i mean to have a consciousness well enough to step outside of what's happening and take action somehow.
The term also led me to Spinoza's theory of Metaphysical Individuation in which he defines motion and rest as a ratio for the existence of an individual's body. He defines bodies and minds as modes, not as substances or subjects. Concretely, a mode is a complex relation of speed and slowness, in the body but also in the thought, and it is a capacity for affecting or being affected, pertaining to the body or to thought. So, if you define bodies and thoughts as capacities for affecting and being affected, many things change, such as the presentation of the moment.
Regarding to my paintings, i'm interested in being defined in that rapid-motionless dynamic and being open to affect or to be affected. But i'm also interested in taking control towards these affections through forms. By taking control in a moment of stillness, and by taking control i mean both observation and taking action, we let it evaluate from passivity to potentiality. A potential that is extremely individual and subjective, and resistant towards what's passive and poor.
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