Everything that exists has a beginning and an end, it can last more or less long over time but on a certain day it will cease to exist. Life in all its forms is subject to this law, as is every material object, buildings, seas, oceans, lakes, mountains, planets, stars, galaxies … interpersonal relationships, ideas and thoughts. Beginning and end are separated, without interruption, by an uninterrupted space of transformation. We experience the non-permanence of all phenomena every day of our lives, moment after moment.

We can change our ideas and habits, our personal tastes and interests change, our friendships and acquaintances change. The weather changes and the seasons alternate. Even our changing and elusive thoughts, despite their invisibility, do not remain. Impermanence therefore does not only concern what physically exists, which we can see, touch and which physically occupies a space, but also what is immaterial, invisible to us, such as a feeling, a state of mind, a thought, a memory, a sound, a perfume, a bodily sensation, etc…

Why is impermanence comparable to an equanimous wave? Because it behaves like the sea wave, which, in a serene, impartial, disinterested and prejudice-free way, lapping the shore, erases the imprint that our foot has left in the sand. The impression we leave, passing through life, between the beginning and the end, will have a permanence, which will depend on the frequency between one wave and the next.

Today I was reflecting on the intimate and unique relationship that each of us has with subjective reality and I tried to condense it in these few lines:

“Just as a prism breaks down light into the different radiations that compose it, each person brings into the world, in their daily life and in all their relationships, the reflection broken down by their own consciousness into thoughts, words and actions. Our relationship with reality is the same that an infusion of tea leaves has for water. We are prisms infused in reality.”

Michele Farinelli (*FariNelly) Artista e poeta (Ferrara, 1968), risiede in Italia.
Esprime il suo profondo sentire attingendo dal quotidiano, ricercando quella semplicità essenziale che sta scomparendo, soffocata dall’assordante rumore che la modernità impone come imperativo di falso benessere.
Poesia, fotografia e stampa d’arte sono gli strumenti che utilizza per comunicare il suo Silenzio.
*FariNelly è l’unione del cognome paterno col nome della madre, Nelly.

Michele Farinelli (* FariNelly)
Artist and poet (Ferrara, 1968), resides in Italy.
It expresses its profound feeling by drawing from everyday life, seeking that essential simplicity that is disappearing, suffocated by the deafening noise that modernity imposes as an imperative of false well-being.
Poetry, photography and art print are the tools you use to communicate your Silence.
*FariNelly is the union of the paternal surname with the name of the mother, Nelly.
See/read more of his work on his website and on Instagram at farinellimichele.