While framing the world, I thought a lot about the psychological principal of selective attention and how photographs and movies essentially choose where our attention should be put on. Being behind the frame made me realize that sometimes there is a lot more to the world then I can see at one point, and that my experience of the life that I live is just that; my experience. We all physically live in this vast “objective” world, but we actually live in our own version of that world, which is entirely subjective. Looking at the world behind a frame made me want to slow down and “stop and smell the roses” as opposed to hastily rushing everywhere as I normally do. I love sitting in coffee shops and looking out the windows at life that goes by, and this experience felt a lot like that. It is impossible to see everything that happens at once and because of this, in a way, we are always living life while looking through our own version of a cardboard frame.
