Action.

 What would you watch for a longer time: a pen that is dropped on the floor and stays there or a pen slowly swaying in the running water? It is said that one could infinitely watches how fire is burning and how water is running. All of those things are actions, and we mostly prefer action to inactivity. The world around us is moving and changing every second so we have to adjust to it and move ourselves. That’s why when we were kids we tended to skip pages in our books that just described some stable pictures of landscapes or personalities and looked for “action” pages with battles, journeys and adventures.

Writings, pictures, paintings, music – all kinds of creative work reflects the world: either outside the author or inside. So if the author wants his reflection to look truthful he has to catch a movement, an action. If he manages to catch it his work will “live”, it will “move”, it will “act”. A reader, a viewer, a listener would desire to hear the next sound, to see the modification of what the author has caught, and to live in the next moment with the work. This means that a reader would like to continue reading every next page, a viewer would keep looking at the painting or a photo to find out what is going on outside the frame, a listener would keep his breath to hear next sound to fall or to rise with it. It shouldn’t necessarily be an epic battle or a full of adventures journey around the Earth, it can be still landscape description but with small moving details: leaves are turning red, two squirrels are playing tag on the trees, a postman is delivering a big package to neighbors. You read these simple phrases, you close your eyes and this imaginary world in your head is full of actions and you are thrilled to know what is in package. And you want to continue reading…