WHAT remains when everything else falls silent…
There are moments when the world stops speaking. Not because it has disappeared, but because something in us no longer needs it in that form. And then silence comes.
Detail of the painting: “Soul of the World – Existence”
There are moments
when the world stops speaking.
Not because it has disappeared.
But because something in us no longer needs it in that form.
And then silence comes.
Not empty.
Not lonely.
A silence that is like a presence.
It does not lead.
It does not explain.
It does not ask.
It simply is.
As if it had always been waiting for us…
beneath all the layers of sounds, thoughts, attempts to be someone we had to be.
In this silence, something very delicate begins to be felt.
Not a light that blinds.
Not an emotion that stirs.
Rather something that… remembers.
Not as a memory.
Not as a story.
But as a gentle recognition.
As if something in you said, without words:
“this is it”
And suddenly there is no need to go any further.
No need to search.
No need to reach for more.
Because what was being sought…
was never outside.
It was always what remains…
when everything else falls silent.
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Perhaps that is why we so often run from silence.
Because it gives no answers.
It takes the questions away.
And without them…
only the truth remains.
Quiet.
Simple.
Untouched.
If you feel…
that something in you has just stopped, even for a fraction of a moment,
then perhaps you are already closer than you think.
Not to something new.
To what has always been.
“Soul of the World – Existence” · 2021
The painting you see…
Is not merely accompanying this journey.
It is its beginning.
It is a state that was painted… before silence began to speak in words.
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I do not call you.
I simply am.
I leave a trace of colour… so that something in you may find its way.
Beata | Haptic painting, Atelier BWK
Beata Wisniewska Kowalewska