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Mementos : a reminder of the past I never hear "mementos" before i join art therapy class. Art therapy class?What is it? Art therapy : study about art as therapy, not only an art. To help people solve conflict, and many more. Then, about mementos, my lecture asked us to draw mementos. Mementos means a thing (or things), a memorable thing, and u keep it for years, and it must be precious. And i drew bolster, i drew fish bolsters. Those were from my mom, long years ago, i remember, she bought it in exhibition. When i was 5 years, and the bolsters are still here. Why draw mementos? Just to reexperince that feeling, when we got that mementos in the past. For the first time, i doubt, will i feel?will i? then, when i drew, well, exactly i felt the feeling, felt the love from my mom, remembered my past feeling. And, mementos sometimes remind me to past, not a good one, reverse one, bad one. One time, i tried to draw mementos again, i drew a flower, a cloth flower, it ...