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Finding The Intrepid, Eve Swords Alpert
Finding The Intrepid, Eve Swords Alpert
Senior Projects Spring 2013
Finding the Intrepid
Presented here are territories designed for leisure and enjoyment, the transient occupants thereof, and my attempts to understand what draws the two together. From a certain distance, recreational areas appear to take on religious connotations. Disney World, the Lincoln Memorial, and Niagara Falls are sites of pilgrimage for millions every year. Travelers hope to transcend the everyday. In a world of uncertainties, where one is alternately plagued by rapid changes and dreary repetition, pilgrimages offer a glimpse of the eternal.
A tear shed at a boy-band concert resembles a divine encounter. Coins dropped into the Lost River …