Sentence Evaluation

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

Each body has its own unique form. Learning to draw the human body is key for artists because of each unique form and shape. No matter how you look at the body it will be different.

2) "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experiences."

Pictures are windows into our experiences. This is a picture of my family on a hovercraft in Halifax Canada, this picture is one of my favorites of my entire family. It shows a moment of our trip that could not be captured or even remembered perfectly without this object (picture). Pictures serve as mini windows into memories.

3) The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3D into the miniature, that which can be enveloped by the body."

Souvenirs serve as mini memories that can be held on to forever. Something that can be touched and held to remind the holder of a specific memory and time in their life.

4) Nostalgia can not be sustained without loss.

 Memories can be painful, and nostalgia comes from loss, whether it be moving, losing a family or friend, or a painful event, we can not look back on happier times without being in pain from loss.

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

This shell is from the Philippines, i have one very similar from when i lived there. Not only does it remind me of my time living in the Philippines but it is also a shell from the Philippines itself that i got while scuba diving and one of the locals painted for me, so not only is it a specimen from the Philippines but also a trophy of what i found on my first scuba trip.