"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."
These delicious giant blueberries gave me perspective, especially when using my hand to perceive how large they are.
"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience."
This cardboard sign was made as a last minute attempt to try and get pit tickets to a Rebelution show that all my friends already had tickets for. I waited for hours outside the concert and at the last second scored a pit ticket. I still have the sign in case I need it to work its magic again.
"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3D into the miniature, which can be enveloped by the body."
Saving a flower and drying it out is a habit I got from my mother. I think its a way to save a kind gesture from someone instead to just throw the flowers away when they wilt.
"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss."
I loved my cat, LouCat. I had him for about 3 years and he ran away my first winter in St. Aug. I think hes out there getting cute cats pregnant and ballin' out.
"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy."
I didn't get to keep this painting but it was a group project I did at a nudist festival with random young nudists. Andrew was the one who brought the supplies so he kept it but since then I have brought supplies to create one with strangers at every naked event since then. Its always a fun keepsake and I love getting people who don't see themselves as artists involved.
"The place of origin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated."
Going to the Suwanee River a few times a year is always a magical experience. I think if I lived closer to it I would take its beauty for granted like I do the beach.
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