Senior Portfolio: Jessica Kern: Idea 2: Nostaglia

Nostalgia Dictionary. Com

–noun

a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.

something that elicits or displays nostalgia.

1.a yearning for the return of past circumstances, events, etc

2.the evocation of this emotion, as in a book, film, etc

3.longing for home or family; homesickness

Nostalgia

When looking up the word nostalgia I was surprised to discover the definition had more to do with family and homesickness than I would have guessed. Nostalgia to me is something that is old, familiar, and almost like an idealistic scenario.

“The term of "feeling nostalgic" is more commonly used to describe pleasurable emotions associated with and/or a longing to go back to a particular period of time.” (wikipedia)

As I mentioned in the past I want my work to reflect a vintage feel. Also, I want to recreate scenarios that are familiar to everyone as well as nostalgic memories that most people share. Memories are familiar and reoccurring, people retain the same memories but remember them in different ways. A Christmas family portrait is almost always taken in front of a Christmas tree. Even though the family changes, the room and the size of the tree may differ it is still a portrait of a family in front of a Christmas tree. I want to try to expand on this idea and topic with my project. Therefore, I want to recreate nostalgic scenarios (memories) in the present day and put them in these old scenarios that I am going to create.