Katelyn Gummere 3D Materials and Concepts

On Longing

Sentence 1:

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

This photo was taken in Asheville, North Carolina, where I had experienced environmental scales that as I was not used to the as I'm from Florida. The city was painted with murals that worked with the local scale of the many hills along with perception and created an illusionary view.

Sentence 2:

"The souvenir exists as a sample of the now distanced experience, an experience which the object can only evoke and resonate."

At home, I went to the Mountain Film Festival every November with my mother. Since I no longer reside much at home, this photo and the films I viewed serve as a reminder of how much I cherished the experience of attending.

Sentence 3:

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

As I was standing on the side of the road while the rest of my family were handling a golf cart situation, I saw this scene when I poked my head around the corner. The picture doesn't fully capture what it was like in that liminal space in Mexico, where it was foggy and filled with inviting aromas. Pictures are my way of collecting souvenirs as it can depict an environment better than an object.

Sentence 4:

"Nostalgia can not be sustained without loss."

This picture was taken at a window in my mother and I's old condo that went into foreclosure last semester. The photo was taken through an opalite stone which makes me feel like if I'm actually reliving it. I hadn't realized how much I missed having a home until we were staying at someone else's house over Christmas break.

Sentence 5:

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

I found this sculpture at an Oddities & Curiosities Expo at Austin, Texas when I went for the recent Thanksgiving. The sculpture was wonderfully haunting as it has preserved butterflies that appear to be living and it contradicts with the skull that is missing a jaw. This was one of many beautiful and unusual things that I wished to obtain but instead purchased smaller, more portable, oddities.

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