On Longing Assignment


1. "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale." 
I went parasailing for the first time this past spring and it was crazy seeing how much smaller everything was in comparison to me and my friend when we were up that high.



2. "The Souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."
Over the summer I went hiking in Virginia and ended up taking home a rock that I found on the trail on the way up. I wanted to keep it to remember the hike I took with my friend and how beautiful it was.



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


4. "Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss."
This picture was taken this past summer at the very last Vans Warped Tour. I have gone every year for the past 8 years so I know next year it will be weird not going again.


5. "Place of origin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated."
Picture I took from an airplane window on my way to Illinois.








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