Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Inertia is a strange film that sits atop the underlying desire to move. This residue isn’t strong. It’s a slight tackiness, that once overcome, gives way and breaks up. The residue of inertness can remain, but the more you move despite inertia, the less power it has. It gives up, eventually. The pull remains – but ever so lightly.
The word inert means something entirely different from conventional wisdom. The word in Latin is inars. ‘In’ is a prefix expressing negation, as in ‘not.’ ‘Ars’ as a root means art or skill. In essence, inert or inars means not artistic.
You are an artistic expression, and everything you do is an artistic expression. Inertia is not possible. The universe is one, big art project. The illusion that you are “not creative” is a mere sensation of “stopping.” The universe is expressed through you, even if you believe you are not creative.
Even at rest you’re creating – memories, plans, new worlds. Even in silence, you create the ambient noise in the so-called background. Even at rest you circulate your blood, air, money, opportunities. Even at rest, you cannot be dormant. That is not to say there is no stillness or absolute silence but those absolutes “rest” in a world to which I cannot point. In this world, everything moves. But there is an underlying stillness “out of this world.”
The masterful artist always expresses. If you have writer’s block, you can write about that. If you don’t know what to paint, you can paint an abstraction. If you don’t have a paintbrush, you can paint in your mind. If you don’t have anything in mind, you can see the blank canvas.
There’s always something to artistically express. Inert – not artistic? Give it a sec and a thought will pop up. Voila – art has been made.