"The body is our primary mode of perceiving scale."
-Graphic I know but this picture reminds me of the time I accident ran into a wall, in the pitch black at night, and cutting open the left side of my upper lip. I never understood how one little cut could hurt so badly, before and after the stitches.-
"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience."
-Pin trading at Disney World is like an adventure, seeking out rare pins from the cast members throughout the parks and collecting them as you go through the years. I have learned over time, almost ten years, where the best and worst places are for pin trading. -
"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and three-dimensional into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."
-The whole purpose of a souvenir is to remember a place you have been or experienced in your lifetime, the most common souvenirs are shirts or sweatshirts. I bought this sweatshirt on a Washington DC field trip in the eighth-grade for two other reason besides a memento: it was freezing in the month of March and everyone else on the field trip bought one too.-
"Nostalgia can not be stained without loss."
- There was a time in Magic Kingdom where my father and I could take a restful ride called Skyway to get to Tomorrowland, through Fantasyland, and into Liberty Square. Unfortunately this ride is no longer there anymore but it was a favorite pastime of mine in the Magic Kingdom.-
"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy."
-Around age five or six, I was in a dance class where we studied tap dancing and it's origins from Ireland. It was also the same year when I received my first dance trophy.-
