Focus

The idea of focus in a frame is the idea of controlling what is seen, what is in the front, where our sight and eye should be looking to, what the artist’s intention was, what he was focused on. This is him passing on his intention to us, literally.
But it is also a representation of the way we see or be, in our daily lives. We look at some point, at a thing, an intention, a goal, avoiding blurry moments, when we don’t know what to focus on. (We can attempt to blur our sight, using substances or just by almost closing our eyes, two sides of the act of attempting to close the gap between the seen and the person looking)
When staying with a frame, we can play with the idea of the unfocused, not only as background, but as a glimpse into what we cannot see. Those things are blurred, so usually once we look at them they will become focused. Using the gift of the frame we can see the unseeable. We can look with focused eyes on the unintentional. (Which is also what makes this different from drinking alcohol, for example).
This idea is also found on stage, when a play keeps it’s non talking characters on stage. They are there in the background, being but not in the act of “being seen”. While another action is happening in the front of the stage, in the spotlight, they can act without acting. Looking at these actors is something I enjoy.