On Longing:
"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."
"Capacity of objects serve as traces of authentic experience."
"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, the 3-demensinal into the miniature that which can be enveloped by the body.
"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss."
"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy"
Tokens Response:
Tokens was quite heartbreaking. To read about children being given up by mothers and left with tokens--mementos--and the promise of return...often without return...it was saddening. The tokens varied in size, shape and purpose. But all held meaning. All held memories. All held promise. But often, the promise laid broken, the children leaving the hospital at which their mother's abandoned them. It is amazing how much meaning can be held by a small object, but if one does not know the meaning, does its worth diminish? If one holds one half of a shared locket, no knowledge of who holds the other but aware of its existence, does the meaning still remain? Tokens brings all these things in question and reveals the solemn value of mementos to those often without the memory of their significance.
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