He invited the audience to build and complete their story from where he left them space to grow.
I know you didn't want to put any visual representation in this post to depict your private homage to your dad. But having seen much of his work according to what you have already shared with us before. Now let me try to fill that blank canvas with some Shadowdance A/V as my own tribute to those as your dad who always had the skills to tell stories creating marvels with their own hands.
I think that part of what is missing in the world today is more people using their hands to build the story - not enough real action.
Yep! seems like nowadays there are already too much easy swiping, 1click tech filters, digital plugins, shortcut widgets and whatnot as to people be willing now to tell stories which will get their hands dirty in some way through the process.
A world of user experience owned by others.