There are silences that feel uncomfortable… but there are also silences that hold us. These are the ones that interest me most. Those moments when everything quiets down and, paradoxically, something deep inside begins to speak.
We live surrounded by noise: notifications, restless thoughts, conversations that fill us yet also exhaust us. In the midst of all this, silence becomes a refuge. But not an inert one—a living space. A space of latency, where nothing is yet and everything is possible.
For me, creating begins here: in the silence that listens before speaking. In that apparent emptiness which is, in fact, fertile ground. Like the pauses in music that give meaning to the notes, silence holds the shape before it takes form.
John Cage expressed this radically in 4'33”, a piece where no notes are played.
Suddenly, the music isn’t what is played, but the act of listening. Ambient sounds, expectation, the moment itself become the work.
This is the kind of silence I’d like to share with you today—not as absence, but as attitude. An active listening, a full presence. Because only when the noise fades can we hear the inner impulse that guides us—a word, an image, a subtle direction.
