"The body is the Primary mode of perceiving scale"
This image was taken when competing my first Adirondack peak. You don't really understand how small you are until you acknowledge the world around you at a larger scale.
"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience"
Having more objects to help justify an experience increases the person's credibility. This photo was taken after a client meeting as a form of justification that the work for that client was completed with satisfaction.
"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3-Dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body"
Owning a souvenir scales down the size of an important piece of history or monument. This photo is of a model of the empire state building scaled down into a tangible product.
"Nostalgia can not be sustained without loss"
In order for something to be considered nostalgic, you must have forgotten about it and it becomes part of the past. This image was a social gathering at an abandoned fort which consists of mustangs. Out of all of the people in this photo, I only see about 2 of them regularly. This type of event may not happen again the way it did here.
"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy"
Having a foreign souvenir can help explain a culture or society. This image is of the time a friend of mine from Greece got me a lighter from Athens as a birthday gift.
"Nostalgia can not be sustained without loss"
In order for something to be considered nostalgic, you must have forgotten about it and it becomes part of the past. This image was a social gathering at an abandoned fort which consists of mustangs. Out of all of the people in this photo, I only see about 2 of them regularly. This type of event may not happen again the way it did here.
"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy"
Having a foreign souvenir can help explain a culture or society. This image is of the time a friend of mine from Greece got me a lighter from Athens as a birthday gift.
