Momento

 

Blood Lost

Wood and red ink

2" x 2" x 2"

This sculpture reflects a time in my childhood home in New Jersey. It is based off a memory of me falling down the stairs where I cracked my head open, lost two teeth and had bruises all over my body. The stairs represent the stairs that I fell down. I used a light wood to represent my childhood, whenever I think back to memories of my childhood I always associate them with light/bright colors. The sharpness of the stair case represents the sharp pains I felt after the accident. The red ink I used is to represent the blood that was left all over the stair case after the fact. 

Louise Bourgeois

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Marco Tirelli

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Martin Azua

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"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale"

I chose this photo because you are able to perceive the scale of the wall I am climbing by seeing the size of my body. 

"The souvenir speaks to a context of origin through a language of longing, for it is not an object arising out of need or use value."

This photo fits this quote because this leaf bug is an object that does not need me and holds no value in the world we live in, I could not sell a bug and make money from it. 

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

This photo fits this quote because cigarettes are a way of inhaling tobacco by stuffing a small paper with tobacco in order to smoke it. Once the cigarette is packed it is able to be consumed into the body.

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

This photo fits this quote because this was a zippo lighter from the Korean War given to me by my uncle making it exotic. I see it as a specimen because a specimen has life and its flame is the lighter life. I also claim it as a trophy because it is one of a kind and my uncle traded for it with a Korean soldier.

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

This photo fits this quote because this is my grandfathers 1956 corvette, which are no longer available which makes it very desirable to people who collect cars.