Frames

Most of Nora’s work begins with a frame.

A frame is a creative space that holds attention for a period of time. It gives the work somewhere to begin, but it doesn’t arrive fully defined. At the start, a frame is often little more than an idea with loose edges. A feeling worth staying with. A visual direction. A way of approaching sound or language that feels open enough to explore.

Because the work moves in loops, frames are shaped by use. As ideas are tried, revisited, and adjusted, the character of the frame becomes clearer. Its boundaries sharpen gradually. Often, the name of a frame only becomes obvious after the work has taken shape, once it’s possible to see what kind of space was being explored and what belonged inside it.

A frame isn’t a plan or a brief. It doesn’t dictate outcomes. It provides a set of soft limits that help choices relate to one another without forcing them into a fixed result.

Working Inside a Frame

Work inside a frame happens through return.

Ideas are tested, listened to, adjusted, and revisited over time. Some develop into full pieces. Some remain smaller studies. Many are left behind. Even the work that doesn’t surface plays a role by clarifying what fits the frame and what does not.

The aim isn’t to exhaust every possibility. It’s to stay with a space long enough to understand it.

As this happens, music and visuals develop together. Images and videos are created alongside sound, and each influences the other. These materials aren’t added after the fact. They are part of how the frame takes shape.

What a Frame Produces

Frames usually give rise to collections.

At a minimum, this includes a musical body of work and a visual gallery. The musical work may take the form of a single, an EP, or an album. The gallery gathers images and videos created during the same period. Together, these collections offer a view into the frame, but they are not the frame in full.

What’s shown publicly is a selection. A large amount of material is never released. Some of it exists only to explore the space. Some of it helps inform later decisions. Some of it remains unfinished because it would require more time, different skills, or different tools than make sense at the moment.

Because of this, the work presented under a frame should be read as partial by design.

Lifespan and Return

Frames have natural lifespans.

When new work begins to feel repetitive or overly familiar, it’s usually a sign that the space has been explored thoroughly. At that point, attention moves elsewhere. Ending a frame is part of the process, not a failure.

That doesn’t mean a frame is sealed forever. Sometimes new skills, tools, or ideas make it possible to return to a space later. Sometimes visual work created much later sparks new ideas connected to an earlier frame. When that happens, galleries or collections may be expanded or updated.

A frame doesn’t have a fixed end state. It has periods of focus and periods of rest.

Navigating by Frame

Browsing by frame means moving through these different spaces of attention.

You’re seeing what was shared from each period, how music and visuals came together, and what took form while that space was being held. You’re not seeing everything that happened there, and that absence is intentional.

Frames are not statements. They are places that were entered, shaped through work, and eventually set aside so something else could begin.