Oil, acrylic, paper, pin on canvas · 2022
Movement is Life, Stillness is Death
Artwork details
Polina Zhadko · 2022
Oil, acrylic, paper, pin on canvas
53 × 46 cm
About the work
"Here is the Photon, That the merry Higgs Field cannot wilt, That makes the Particle frequently tilt, That lives in the dark tunnel's gilt, In the Hadron Collider, That CERN built..."
The painting considers the photon through movement, wave-particle duality and the absence of rest mass. A beam is rendered as a wave while being composed of individual touches of oil paint, making the painted surface a visual metaphor for quantum duality.
The title connects those physical ideas with a philosophical statement: movement becomes the condition of life, while stillness suggests its end.
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