Idea: Nostalgia

Childhood Family Photo.

Definition:
Nostalgia-

1: the state of being homesick: homesickness.

2: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition

Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ~George Wildman Ball

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ~Florence King

Text:

Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Construction of Personal Identity. by Andreea Deciu Ritivoi.

Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu. Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Construction of Personal Identity. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. Print.

Nostalgia is at once everything that my project is about and yet what I hope for it to transcend. My project is all about wanting to return to places and things that are past, specifically my past at least to begin with. However my ideas about memory and its inability to be truthful are an exploration of reality which is basically the antithesis of nostalgia.