final sculptures

final sculptures 

for the project are here on my website (and below)

my crystallized shoe-inserts from the 10 days of walking

i decided driving people to this blog instead of trying to label each day's scent with a poem or picture would be more in keeping with the project itself

since day 7 was such a popular scent, i think that is the one i will start marketing

new york day 10

today's performance was a short one on e 14th:

the walk from my front door to the taxi

so i shot a video of my molecular atmospheric interference on the way to the midtown tunnel 

east sun is rising 

leaving the muck and mire

welcome peach fuzz sky

the last fragrance smelled a little off in the bottle, but it's a nice lime citrus with a drop of the bbq fragrance (i think the tar color of the bbq ingredient is what drove many of these concoctions for new york) and on my skin it dried down to a jasmine floral

 

new york day 8

glorious giant 

a spiced voluptuary

 howling mystery

today i walked to union square and joined artist elizabeth demaray on her lichen for skyscrapers tour, combining my processional work with an educational afternoon

(she's on the bottom fire escape installing a lichen garden)

i ended up giving her the day #8 bottle of perfume since she liked it so much, a good trade for a baggie of her work

the perfume was a mix of green tea, lemon, and honeysuckle, sweet but a little tangy, with some vetiver to give it a little longer life

shot another video of me sitting in union square wearing perfume, affecting the molecular atmosphere around me, and overdubbed the audio from my walk

new york day 1

i wore a spicy scent made up of floral notes with pepper, cade, and gardenia. i was reacting partly to the smells of garbage from yesterdays walk, and the cumin from carts i was passing.  i wanted something next to my skin that would provide a wall against some of the foulness of the streets

i saw a woman physically reacting to a momentarily wafting stench in our subway car of rotten grass and skunk from the afternoon's rain

one thing i did notice about the city today is the reticence to make eye contact, at least for extended periods of time. i'm much more used to connecting with the people i pass by, so that is an adaptation i'm having to undertake. that is also affecting my ability to hear conversation, as many people stop speaking when passing strangers

i chose to make my first prayer more of a poem, from a recording i did in the subway under 14th

as i researched some of the text transcribed from my recording, it turned out to be a list of panagrams, so i reworked them

 

 five frozen sphinx my 

boxing love of jackdaws wives

jump wizards quick chop