On Longing

"The body is the primarily made of perceiving scale."

I picked this image because this photo was taken to show the members of my friend group in high school and we were arranged by height.

"The capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience. "

These are polaroids taken during some of my last few weeks in my hometown. They represent some of my favorite memories with my friends. The polaroids are the trace of authentic experience. 

"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to poses a specimen and a trophy."

In high school, I had to make a pinch pot for ceramics and this was the outcome. Now I use it to hold pens and it serves as a memory of that class. 

"The place of ordainment remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated."

This photo works to represent this quote because my cat is only slightly visible. I know how she is peeking out like that because I know what is behind the wall. But to those who do not the way she is placed makes them curious about how she got there. This creates a desire to know more. 

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental + the three dimensional into the miniature that 

which can be enveloped by the body."

This photo is from the MET in NYC. The photo is of me looking at the painting. The view of the painting changes with me being placed in front of it. Now, this giant painting is small and able to fit into an Instagram square.