While watching water begin to boil, my attention drifted toward the small bubbles rising to the surface.
Individually, they seemed insignificant. Each appeared briefly before disappearing, leaving little evidence that anything had changed. Yet over time, their continual emergence transformed the entire body of water.
It reminded me of an idea that has been returning throughout this practice: accumulation through absence.
Some transformations do not announce themselves through dramatic events. They emerge quietly through countless moments that, in isolation, appear too small to matter. The accumulation is visible only in retrospect.
Perhaps this is also true of composition.
Perhaps it is true of memory.
Perhaps it is true of attention itself.
I don’t know.
What interests me is the possibility that some of the most significant changes occur through events that seem, at the time, almost absent.