A frame is a confined system, consisting of different elements performing their individuality.

Details in images storytell themselves, and looking at them as a part of a larger whole reveals a whole other story simply through the coexistence of those details. By providing information about their own existence, and by becoming sources of effect and comparison, they inform you on how the larger system they belong to performs.

A car exposed to sunlight long enough to tell you it’s in a hurry to reach somewhere else in the city; a person walking on the sidewalk with rush blurring his silhouette; or a street sign that tells you some men will be digging this ground over the coming few days...

Together, these may tell you a story of how still the city is, when people on it are in constant motion going from one place to another. The city’s changes occur only over longer periods, when some prolonged, invisible action in the still image results in an effect or defect. Perhaps some underground water pipe long been under pressure finally bursts, therefore underground work needs to be covered. Or road marks appear interrupted, specifically on manholes, because they can more easily be scraped off on smoothly cast iron surfaces than rough concrete.