On Longing

Sentence 5: “The place of orgin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated.” 

This post on my Instagram is of an abandon dock back at my home in Palm Harbor, FL. I used to go to that dock all the time to sit and listen to music. Sometimes my friends would even go with me and we’d just sit there and talk. I wish I could go back there as frequently as I do, I truly miss it.  

Sentence 4: “Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.”

I took this statement very literally. This is a picture I took and posted on my Facebook of my dear friend Cameron. He died last year unexpectedily. This picture gives me an odd and unsettling feeling of nostalgia, and a time and place I can never return to. 

Sentence 2: “The souvenir reduces the public, the monumentous, the three dimensional, into the miniature that which can be enveloped by the body.” 

I found this picture of a Polaroid on my Instagram. It’s in and of itself a souvenir of a whole time in my life. “Spring Break” is somehow summed up in one disposable picture of my friends and I. 

Sentence 1: “The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale.”

Another picture off my Instagram of me sitting by the Gulf of Mexico on some rocks. I thought this picture encapsulated the technical aspect of what the scentence is trying to convey. My body appears very small in comparison to the vast ocean. 

Sentence 3: “To have a souvenir of the exotic it to posses both a specimen and a trophy.”

This picture from my Facebook is my holding up a souvenir I acquired on my trip to Italy. It is exotic in the sense of being from another country. It fits the topic of being a specimen because it is a tiny plague doctor and plague doctors weren’t really something to joke about there a couple hindered years in the past.