3D to 2D

On Longing Responses

"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."

When I was in high school, I used to volunteer at a family friend's haunted house every year around Halloween. One of my favorite things about this house was the giant pumpkin hand-made from construction materials. In photos of just the pumpkin itself, the viewer cannot perceive the large scale of it, so standing next to the giant sculpture gives more information of just how large it is.

"Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience."

This photo was taken in the middle of urban Atlanta at a wedding venue just next to a large set of train tracks. The authentic experience of the filing cabinets has changed and has now become a source of growth for the nature around it. The vines have grown in and around the cabinets, weaving inside various drawers and doors giving them a new experience.

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

As a child, my favorite place to travel was to the North Georgia Mountains in Brasstown Valley. This view was my peace and tranquility as a young teenager when times were tough at home. Usually when I travel, I find a small souvenir to bring home with me, but whenever I would travel to Brasstown Valley, the view itself that enveloped me 360 degrees was my souvenir.

"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss"

After my mom's car accident my senior year of high school, I did not visit my grandmother in her assisted living due to complications with my mom's accident. Because of this, I lost almost two years of time with my grandma until we finally visited last Christmas. Her dementia has quicky increased, so speaking with her and carrying a normal conversation with her is almost gone. The nostalgia was wonderful when catching up with her, but there was definitely a strong sense of loss in my heart when trying to communicate with her after 2 years of not seeing her slowly digress.

"The place of origin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated"

I posted this photo of my mom and I the day I was supposed to pull her off life support after her car accident. This was posted just minutes after the doctors admitted to me she was a miracle and she was, in fact, going to live. The place we were in when this photo was taken was a place of joy, easiness, and overall ability. My mom and I will probably never get back to a day exactly like this due to her accident, this place is unavailable and unattainable, which only makes my desire to be able to see her walk again that much greater.