Reading Within the Frame, positions the anthology and photo log as interchangeable where image and text trade places, exist together, and communicate with one another. Getting to that point, I consider active looking to be a built-in aspect of my daily life. Noticing and cataloging change feels as inherent as wearing my glasses. Having begun my practice almost ten years ago, looking back at my photos of everyday arrangements, I am reminded daily that art is everywhere. The literal walls, signs, cones, and fences that line my commute are artworks readily positioned to be framed in my collection. With all the sights and sounds of a city, my routine of active looking allows me to take note of change and focus in on the details in the flood of information. Honing this skill functions as a form of mindfulness for me, one I hope to share through my work. The reproduced sight has been seen and can continue to be seen in its state- frozen in bytes, primed for print, or preserved in pixels. This project is made of sights, images that I am then trying to see again, as words. In placing image and text both in positions of artwork in this virtual gallery, they get new functions in relation to each other. The newly positioned diptych of image and image-poem share the same language as one on a wall, though the dialect differs. With the structure now made of pixels instead of drywall, the display area is both locationless and has a foundation in cyberspace.

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