Apertures is an audio series that lingers over moments when inner life becomes briefly visible — through listening, speaking, memory, art, and relationship.

Rather than offering explanations or answers, the series attends to thresholds: moments when something internal, often unspoken, comes into view.

Hosted by psychotherapist Jonathan David Moss, Apertures draws on art, culture, conversation, and lived experience to explore the subtle conditions that make certain forms of speech, contact, and reflection possible.

This trailer offers a brief opening into the listening space of the series.

Listener correspondence is welcome at contact@apertures.org

What happens when listening itself changes what can be spoken?

In this opening episode, Apertures begins with listening — not as a technique or virtue, but as a condition that makes certain experiences thinkable, speakable, and livable over time. Drawing on scenes from film, moments of speech, and reflections on inner life, the episode explores how attention, presence, and receptivity shape what comes into view.

Rather than offering insight or resolution, the episode lingers with moments of contact: when something internal, long held in silence or obscurity, is briefly illuminated because it is listened to.

This episode opens the series by establishing a listening posture that will carry forward — one attentive to thresholds, timing, and the quiet transformations that occur in relationship.

This episode features excerpts from the TV series Mad Men Season 7 Episode 14 (written and directed by Matthew Weiner, featuring Evan Arnold), and the 2016 film Moonlight (written and directed by Barry Jenkins, featuring Mahershala Ali, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Trevonte Rhodes, and André Holland).

This episode is written, composed, and produced by Jonathan David Moss.

Listener correspondence is welcome at contact@apertures.org