"The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale." I had this strange fear that, when I went to Paris, I would be horribly underwhelmed. Of course, I was wrong, and found myself shocked at just how monumental a lot of the historic photo-ops were. I've never felt smaller than I did staring up at the tower from across the street, or when I managed to make my way to the top and stare down at the city below. "Capacity of objects to serve as traces of authentic experience." I took this photo while I watched two of my friends smash porcelain plates, cups, and bowls as a method of releasing stress. While the glassware in it's unaltered state may not communicate much, I felt that the breaking of it, as well as the previously smashed porcelain lying all over the ground, really gives us a clue as to the experience these people had, both in regards to their emotional state at the time and the fun they had breaking things. "The
Digitally Edited Ink and Pencil on Mixed-Media Paper [First Touches] "In fetuses, touch is the first sense to develop, and in newborns it's automatic before the eyes open or the baby begins to make sense of the world. Soon after we're born, though we can't see or speak, we instinctively begin touching." Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses This whole section struck me as very profound, but this was one of my favorite bits of text. I think we often take our senses for granted, especially touch: you don't marvel at the fact you can feel sand run between your fingers when you catch it and let it go, you don't appreciate the softness of the fabric of your mother's shirt as she gives you the hug you've needed all day long but have been too afraid to ask for. And yet, it's truly the first feeling we develop, and is often the main way we discern the world around us- your eyes and ears may fool you, and they of
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