Inbetweening
In animation, ‘inbetweening’ is the process of creating frames to go in between other frames that purposely look blurred to make the transition between two frames look smoother.
When thinking about change from one state to another we often think more about the two fixed states of before and after and not enough about what the transitional state in between look like and how they can smooth the change. Perhaps it’s a limit in our language that makes it easier to describe fixed states but almost impossible to explain what things in flux might be like. Perhaps purposely communicating things in blurry ways, and being comfortable with the uncertainty that shows, might help us appreciate the transitions in between.