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The Body is the primary made of perceiving scale.

I chose this picture because I associated it most strongly with the quote. It is a photo of my boyfriend, which I took while at the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. I took it from further away in order to show the scale of the cliff and rock formations around us, using his body as a scale. His body in this case is the primary source for the perception of the scale of the nature around us, without his body there it would seem less impressive.

Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience. 

To be honest, I had a hard time understanding this sentence. What I understood from it was that, some objects can be traces of an authentic experience. One of these authentic experiences i had and the objects describing and leaving a trace of that experience are in this picture. I went out to a drag show with a friend, which offers all you can drink for only $10. I don't think I have to further explain the picture after saying that. 

The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by body.

Bonnaroo was a monumental experience for me the past couple of years. When they send you the ticket, they also send you some little knick knack, like a magic eight ball of a deck of cards. I still have these knick knacks around, at least of of them. They seem small and insignificant compared to the actual experience, and they make the experience seem smaller than it actually was. But it is nice to uncover the knick knacks while cleaning or organising. They bring back many many memories...

Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.


This photo is of me, my siblings, and my cousins while my family spent the summer at my grandparents' house in Connecticut. I do not have contact to that part of my family anymore and looking at these pictures makes me feel nostalgic about my childhood summers at that home.

To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy

My doofus dog, Candy, is my pride and joy. I show her off, cuddle her until she is annoyed and seeks shelter from me, play with her, take her on hikes, but most importantly we are family. She is the best souvenir i have so far from my time in Florida and without her I would probably not be. 

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