The Pause Between Moments

Life moves fast—until it doesn’t. The Pause Between Moments captures the stillness forced upon a group of strangers by an unpredicted rainstorm in Berlin. The world didn’t stop, but for a brief moment, they had to. Plans were interrupted, steps were halted, and time stretched in a way that only nature can demand. Some wait with patience, others with quiet frustration or quiet wonder. A girl clutches her dog, a man stares ahead, an umbrella tilts against the weight of the rain—all caught in a shared limbo between what was and what comes next.

This piece is about the in-between—the moments we don’t plan for, the pauses that remind us to simply exist before life pulls us forward again.