“The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.” ~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart When I was younger, I thought knowledge was something you could capture—something you could write down, measure, and prove.
I believed that to understand something, I had to explain it. And for a long time, I tried. But then, life—through film, through music, through long conversations with people whose wisdom couldn’t be found in books—taught me something else: the most powerful truths don’t always come in words.
They exist in the space between them. I learned this lesson in the mountains, where the sky stretches wide, and silence is not empty but full of presence.
I had traveled there to document a group of elders who carried the history of their people in their voices, in their stories, in the songs they sang to the younger generations.