A photograph can make an ordinary object seem worth examining after years of using it.

Use makes things invisible. A kettle handled every morning stops being seen at all, because your hands know it and your eyes are free to go elsewhere. A photograph puts a frame around it and returns it to the status of something to look at, which is why familiar objects can look strange and rather beautiful in pictures. The object did not change, only the kind of attention it was given.

Try photographing one thing in your home that you use without thinking. Look at the picture for longer than feels necessary. You may find you have been living alongside a shape you never actually saw.