I was thinking about my previous post on Fieroza Doorsen, and her beautiful restraint, when the great Miles Davis quote, “It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play” appeared in my feed. It’s funny how our brains work to connect the dots. There’s beauty and grace in restraint. Restraint gives way to possibility. It leaves the other person wondering, imagining. Picasso’s bull, a Brutalist building, and a single variety flower arrangement all spring to mind. It’s the absence of something that makes them all so beautiful.