"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 ...
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