Mementos

"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."-Being able to see something in person, allows us to better perceive the true grandeur of it, no matter its actual size.

"Captivity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience."-Being able to hold on to to something, that can instantly take you back to moment in time or memory from the past

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3-demensional into the miniature, which can be enveloped by the body."- outmaneuvers such a miniature Effiel tower to help remember the true beauty of the original place or site.

"Nostalgia cannot be sustained without loss."- even happy memories we remember to come without a sadness of not still being that moment, whether be because we've some from it or do not get to spend time with those people or be in  those places anymore.

"To have a souvenir of the exotic is to possess both a specimen and a trophy."Something tangible that can hold great value not because of its worth but the memory and time it represents.

"The place of origin must remain unavailable in order for desire to be generated."Places we go are often a once in a lifetime trip and therefore can hold greater value.

In Process

In Process

Final sculpture

Final sculpture

Final sculpture

Drawing of final sculpture

For this sculpture I used the memory of my trip to Thailand several years ago, one thing I remembered vividly, was seeing a lot of bamboo, in some of the hill-tribe villages we traveled to all the houses were made entirely of bamboo, on the trip I also got to have the experience of riding an elephant as well as feeding a baby elephant, finally during my trip I had purchased a blue sarong, which  i wore on a day in which it began to rain, causing my sarong in turn started to bleed the blue dye causing my legs to be dyed blue for several days, with these memories, I used insulation foam to carve the shape of bamboo, no entire to help convey impoverished parts of the country I saw, then using glue dried on my hands to express the texture of the elephant skin which attached , then I used blue ink t o represent the my experience with the sarong.

this is one photo from the trip I am the one on the right on the elephant

This is me after my legs had been turned blue, still wearing the sarong

Drawing of final sculpture

Drawing of final sculpture