This is in reference to the main character's exploration of photography - viewing the world through the frame of a lens. Photos do allow for a process of growth, healing, and conversation. Framing an image depicts only a concise portion of a whole. In life there are times that issues must be viewed through a frame of reference which enables the cropping out of details that are not pertinant. Photos offer the challenge of looking for new ways to look at things. This skill transfers to other areas of life - cooking, communicating, teaching, relating. The confidence to crawl outside the challenge and come at it from a completely different angle is learned, practiced, and strengthened.
Photography reminds you that in most scenes, if you look a little longer there is something there of beauty and interest. This beauty and interest may require you to get down on the ground to meet your subject on its level. It may require you to cross all polite boundaries of space and see a subject more closely than you have looked before. Photogaphy teaches you to look for a focal point - one issue to focus on and have communicated within that piece.In these ways teaching is an art form. The kids I teach may require that I come to where they are to view the challenge. They may need me to focus on one issue at a time. And they each desperately need me to see the beauty that is inherant in their lives regardless of what I may need to look past or over or under to see it.
