On Longing

Sentence 1:  "The body is the primary mode of percieving scale"(Suzanne Stewart)

      In this image, the body is actually used as scale in order to perceive how gargantuan the ball at EPOCT actually is. This memory is a good one despite the frigid air and the overcast weather. It was my first trip to Disney with a friend instead of my parents, my roommate in fact. An abundance of memories were made that day but first entering the park is the most memorable.

Sentence 2: "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authenitc experience"(Suzanne Stewart)

This image was taken 3 years ago when I went to Kentucky for SkillsUSA nationals. Now this image may just be me standing outside of the baseball bat factory but what happened within it is much more important. That day we went into the factory and I got a small baseball bat the mimicked the one outside and served as a memory to watching it being created step by step and be engraved. Though its not that amazing the experience is what makes it meaningful to me.

Sentence 3: ""The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3- Dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body" (Suzanne Stewart) 
 This picture was taken the day we signed the lease for a new apartment and just received the key to the new place. In my mind I like to think the apartment is within the key given to me and when I envelope the key into my hand I am carrying a miniature apartment memory in it.

Sentence 4: "to have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy" (Suzanne Stewart)
 
This image was taken on a trip to Animal Kingdom six years ago when I was 13. In Disney they used to have these stations where you can get a wax figure of any animal you want. At the time I really loved giraffes and got one made of wax. It is currently sitting in my bedroom at home surrounded by my rather poor attempts at drawing it in various sketchbooks. The rather asymmetrical body threw me through a loop and my lack in drawing skill as well.

Sentence 5: "......the nostalgic input of the handmade in a "plastic world"(Suzanne Stewart) 
I decided to apply a different meaning to this quote. while handmade is just as gorgeous I like to appreciate those things made by natures hand. The forces of the world coming together to create beautiful architecture that cannot be minced by humans to an extent. The beauty and effortlessness present in the world around us outweighs at least in my opinion what mankind has created.