The anthropology of the Middle East has addressed ethical life as a matter of central concern for the development of theoretical and empirical understandings in 1) differences in perceptions of the good life 2) questions about (differentiating) secular and religious subjects 3) questions about ordinary vis a vis extraordinary dimensions of ethical life in the context of the Middle East. This paper focuses on the gap-like qualities of ethical life, and draws on extensive fieldwork in Amman, Jordan. Looking to the artistic and activist dimensions of ethical life, we can formulate a theory of the extraordinary potential - gaps - in seemingly mundane scenes and materialities. By playing around with the potentials of the urban context, its affordances, and its relations, artists and activists in Amman are shaping spaces for dwelling in ethical uncertainty, as well as in the temporal spaces of ethical possibility that comes out of that uncertainty. This in part creates spaces for imagining the otherwise in the context of a neoliberal economy, state investment in notions of cultural traditionalism, and the multiple relations that overflow such contextualization of society and dominant ethico-political moral norms. Thus, the paper presents an ethnographically informed understanding of the risks, reparative labor, and playfulness involved in imagining other ethical worlds possible among artists and activists in Amman, Jordan. By suggesting "the gap" as an imagistic approach to ethical uncertainty and potentiality in activist-artistic encounters, I suggest an ethnographically informed conceptualization of a playful approach to the radical openings in ethical life.