A Practice in Attention
A Practice in Attention is my attempt to visualize the act of engaging and building attention. Attention is not an inherent skill, it is something that requires care and cultivating. Our attention has not been lost, it has been stolen. It’s been redirected by social media, capitalism, and the constant pressure to always be doing something. Through this project, I explore how developing a personal practice of attention might begin to shift not only how I move through my own life, but how I relate to the systems and environments around me. Attention becomes a form of care, something that shapes relationships between people, places, and communities, and something that must be learned, practiced, and intentionally directed.
Installation + Publication
This installation aims to mimic my own attention practice. Rather than encouraging passive stillness, I invite the audience to actively engage in looking; slowly, thoughtfully, and with intention. The act of paying attention is a deliberate and generative process of noticing, choosing, and relating. Inspired by ideas of local awareness and small-scale attention, the installation suggests that meaningful engagement does not require understanding or comprehending everything, but instead begins with just noticing and focusing on what’s immediately around us. The act of looking at this piece is what makes it beautiful, but more importantly, looking at it becomes a way to practice attention itself. This is an invitation to reconsider what we choose to notice, and how that choice shapes the way we live.
