memento

"The souvenir distinguishes the experience."

This quote stood out to me because I am always trying to collect as many objects as I can from the experiences I go through in life. This quote reminded me of traveling places. Whenever I traveled somewhere wether i was younger or even now, I also try to have an object represent the places that I've been, to show, or remind myself that I've been there. Wether it was money from a foreign country or a key chain that said where I visited. When first hearing what we had to do for this assignment I began to think of a souvenir that was significant to my childhood.

Experience to my piece.

This piece resembles when i was younger in 3rd grade. At my school that year we opened a time capsule. The last time it has been opened was in the 40's. So in there were many toys that the students used in that time period. There were also a lot of class photos of all the students that attended there then. I created this time capsule to remind myself of what this memento experience was like. Instead of having memorabilia inside the capsule I put paper on the outside as well. Also a time capsule is meant to secure things over a massive amount of time. I made mine not so concealed.