Momento
(Materials)
Scrap wood, nails, string
(Dimensions)
1”, 1”, 3”
On Longing
"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss." This is my cousin Vicky and I. Vicky was my cousin closest in age, and someone I truly enjoyed spending time with. I was nine years old when Vicky committed suicide. Her brother and my other cousin, Jason, had died unexpectedly at a party in college prior to this. These losses were the first times I had been genuinely introduced to loss. Not only did I lose both of my cousins, but I had lost a part of my father I will never get back. I am constantly nostalgic of my childhood prior to being exposed to this kind of life-altering sorrow. Nostalgia is a bittersweet, lingering emotion. Loss has a way of making memories seem more valuable than they had been previously. I used to fear nostalgia and try to make it go away, but now I welcome it as a token of what once was. "The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three dimensional into the miniature that can be enveloped by the body." This is a
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