schrodinger's cat - super position !!!

You may be thinking how on earth has my research jumped from memory with in genders to a quantum physic theory about  cat in a box .  I was told about possibly reading into the Schrodinger cat theory by a tutor at university very early on in the project , i went home Google-d it and it completely confused my mind . I can see the obvious link between it being a closed box but i was struggling to connect this theory into a concept for my work , it wasn't until i read Roland Barthes Camera Lucida that i was able to create a theoretical link to my work .

Like the cat the contents of a memory box is either dead or alive .
The individual possessions in somebody's memory box generally have no "Affect"(Affect Theory) on other viewers , same with family photo albums , unless you know the people photographed or in a memory boxes case the memory collected they can all be very "samey" and will not provoke sentiment.. Dead cat !
On the other hand the box could do the complete opposite and be a  reinforcement of memory ,be nostalgic and have copious amounts of "affect" on the viewer. Alive cat !!
In this state of superposition my viewers can only be intrigued as to what substances are in or not in the box. What happens if i do not show my viewers the contents of the box but just the closed box itself ? and with the images or sat next to the images a contents list of the objects possibly within so the viewers can create there own interpretations of what is in the box and who owns the box.
Not allowing the box to be open and contents revielved means we do not have to force upon a decision the memory are there forever frozen times in my frames.Curiosity literally could kills the cat or in this instance the private memory.A message about my earlier research on how digitalising you family photo albums or memory boxes devalues there "affect" some things should remain private. 

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Schrodingers-cat

Schrödinger's cat is a famous illustration of the principle in quantum theory ofsuperposition, proposed by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. Schrödinger's cat serves to demonstrate the apparent conflict between what quantum theory tells us is true about the nature and behavior of matter on the microscopic level and what we observe to be true about the nature and behavior of matter on the macroscopic level -- everything visible to the unaided human eye.

Here's Schrödinger's (theoretical) experiment: We place a living cat into a steel chamber, along with a device containing a vial of hydrocyanic acid. There is, in the chamber, a very small amount of hydrocyanic acid, a radioactive substance. If even a single atom of the substance decays during the test period, a relay mechanism will trip a hammer, which will, in turn, break the vial and kill the cat. 

The observer cannot know whether or not an atom of the substance has decayed, and consequently, cannot know whether the vial has been broken, the hydrocyanic acid released, and the cat killed. Since we cannot know, according to quantum law, the cat is both dead and alive, in what is called a superposition of states. It is only when we break open the box and learn the condition of the cat that the superposition is lost, and the cat becomes one or the other (dead or alive). This situation is sometimes called quantum indeterminacy or the observer's paradox: the observation or measurement itself affects an outcome, so that the outcome as such does not exist unless the measurement is made. (That is, there is no single outcome unless it is observed.)

We know that superposition actually occurs at the subatomic level, because there are observable effects of interference, in which a single particle is demonstrated to be in multiple locations simultaneously. What that fact implies about the nature of reality on the observable level (cats, for example, as opposed to electrons) is one of the stickiest areas of quantum physics. Schrödinger himself is rumored to have said, later in life, that he wished he had never met that cat.

Definition of super position 

Superposition is a principle of quantum theory that describes a challenging concept about the nature and behavior of matter and forces at the sub-atomic level. The principle of superposition claims that while we do not know what the state of any object is, it is actually in all possible states simultaneously, as long as we don't look to check. It is the measurement itself that causes the object to be limited to a single possibility.