Memento Assignment notes and guidelines

Guidelines

• Non-representational sculpture of a memory; person, place, event
• Must use 3 materials,Three shall be the number thou shalt use, and the number of the using shall be three. Four shalt thou not use, neither use thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, thou shall hath completed thy sculpture. 
• Must fit in one or two hands
• Use elements and principles of design to communicate and symbolize the memory

"On Longing" Quotes

• "The body is the primary mode of perceiving scale."
• "Capacity of objects serve as traces of authentic experience."
• "The souvenir reduces the public, the monumental, and the three-dimensional into the miniature... that 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."