"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."  I sometimes feel like I'm larger than life and taller than mountains. That is until I actually stand on a mountain. There's something about these massive structures that can make me feel both very small and very young.

 

"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience." This was one of the first articles published about my husbands band. Narrow Magazine is made up of a bunch of great guys that spread the word about local musicians. I remember everyone being so excited about this brief moment that everyone else in St. Augustine has forgotten about by now, but I can still hold onto this excitement in print.

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3D into the miniature that which can be enveloped by the body." This was a plaster mold of my face the first time I attempted art school. I ended up turning it into a lamp, which freaked my mom out a lot and she ended up throwing it away. It was surreal being able to hold my own face in my hands. 

"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss." The dog running in the middle of the field is Georgie, my best friend on the entire planet. His brother, Apollo, is right behind him. My mom gave me the dog in the because she couldn't handle the two of them together. I took care of both of them before she moved up to Virginia permanently and she took Apollo with her. I can tell Georgie misses his brother a lot and gets really excited whenever I mention his brother.

"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy." My classical guitar is a souvenir of a friendship that ended abruptly for me.  I went up to North Carolina with her and her family and they heard me practicing for the guitar AllState competition on a guitar I had checked out from school. They loved me enough and bought me my own guitar so I could further my education in classical guitar. About two years later, some one who I thought was a friend got in between us and managed to ruin our friendship.