1-    The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale.

Leonardo Da Vinci Vitruvian Man

Leonardo discovered that a man’s body is in direct geometric proportion.  When his arms are extended, he can make both a perfect circle and square.  Due to this, human proportion is used as a basic measurement.

2-    The capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience.  

Certain objects allow you to have different experiences.  I surf a lot and people that do not have a surfboard cannot experience the authentic feeling of riding a wave.  This coincides with all objects such as a skateboard, etc. 

3-    The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three dimensional into the miniature that which can be enveloped by the body.

When I visited London, I went to a thrift shop and found a vintage camera that still worked.  I bought film for it and took pictures of all the places I went throughout England.  Every time I see this camera on my shelf, it constantly reminds me of my travels.  The pictures I took with represent the public, 3D, and the monumental into the miniature.

4-    To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy.

I chose carved coconuts as an example because it is very exotic and can only be found in odd places.  It’s not very common to see carved coconuts that portray faces.  One would usually see this vacationing to some foreign country.  I own one of these from when I went to Mexico and every time I see it, it reminds me of my trip both as a specimen and as a trophy of my travels. 

5-    Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss.

       We cannot reminisce about something we loved in the past if we never lost it in    the first place.  I chose a picture in which a multitude of hanging pictures are depicted.  Each one represents a personal association in the past that causes us to recollect it in the present.