By Rina Anshina

Healing yourself and your relationship with art is a hard one. Yet, what I found to be most helpful is realizing your presence within this world. Noticing your mundane life, and seeing more within it. When you do so, you begin to notice things, small minuscule things you would have never noticed before. That is what I realized looking through my past photographs, which I took during my time in summer school in Cambridge, and photography trips I have taken with my father in Japan. Even though I wasn’t aware of it, I was capturing something unique, something innately personal from my ordinary life.

My photographs in this series present subjects framed by nature and man-made objects. I was not capturing something significant, but I was finding a slice of my own life, that would have been so ordinary, yet so incredibly unique when framed by other things. My work encourages people to not only notice what can be seen through a keyhole but to notice the door itself as well. Seeing the bigger picture in life, to ponder not only what is ahead but see what is right in front of you. It is easy to get ahead of yourself, to worry about what will come. Sometimes, we need to let ourselves breathe, and find and appreciate the beauty that is presented right in front of us.