On Longing

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

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

"The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the 3D into the miniature, 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."

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