Don’t overthink it.

Have I said it before? I am learning to see. Yes, I am beginning. It's still going badly. But I intend to make the most of my time. —Rilke—

My name is Beth Wernet. I'm an Interaction Design MFA candidate at SVA in New York City.

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“These photographs possess acuity to the point of absurdity. They used to be rare, with plenty of space and time between them. Now, on Tumblr, on Instagram, on Pinterest, on Vine, on the network, they are consolidated and stacked on top of one another. It can easily become a habit to seek and collect these things, if only for the pangs they create. And when that collection is public and shared, our memory boxes become a kind of mediated performance. These places are towers of poignancy. They’re machines that amplify punctum, and seed the feeling of memories that were never more than smoke.”

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Frank Chimero, “To Pierce” (via brynnshepherd)

Reminds me of this article:

There’s a German word for it, of course: Sehnsucht, which translates as “addictive yearning.” This is, I think, what these sites evoke: the feeling of being addicted to longing for something; specifically being addicted to the feeling that something is missing or incomplete. The point is not the thing that is being longed for, but the feeling of longing for the thing. And that feeling is necessarily ambivalent, combining both positive and negative emotions.

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- February 10, 2013 (12:52 pm)
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