mention

my project got a little mention here

new york day 2

today i walked down 14th street to the chelsea pier and sailed through the hudson bay wearing my day 2 perfume. since i had tried something kind of spicy yesterday, i went for a more natural and fresh scent today, partly to compliment the day's activities, although i'm always overpowered by the main ingredient: galbanum. every time i get this in my nostrils i have a hard time smelling anything else in the vicinity, and perhaps that is how my fellow pilgrims experienced my presence 

ok bugflower, 

sweet fern i will break no bones, 

who are you in there?

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graffiti

i'm excited to have found a couple of kindred spirits in the scent exploration game

what we do is secret

and as i think more about scent in my own work, it does have a great relationship to graffiti, i had been thinking already about architecture and scent, the idea of creating walls with unwanted aromas (animal urine mixed with squid ink as deterrent and protection against predators)

and i love the idea of my perfume being like physical graffiti in the brain of a viewer. powerful potential while walking the streets of new york and disseminating my work

the idea that i'm also collecting a solemn request, or expression of gratitude (prayer as defined by oxford english dictionary) from some recipients makes it an exchange, hopefully, resulting in some form of amelioration 

interacting with architecture

i just had a piece installed in the chain letter show at shoshana wayne gallery, in santa monica

i definitely have been erring on the side of subtlety with scents lately

and actually this reminds me of a show in culver city from last year, called the human powered show

i debuted of one of my favorite scents to date, vice, composed mainly of tobacco, chocolate and coffee, by pouring it down the wall

trains

i just moved into a new studio.

i'm directly on a train track, and am excited to see how this will inform my translation of cities, landscapes, form, into scent

it's good practice for exploration of place and architecture, thinking about going to new york. but first, i have a sculptural installation in tacoma, washington to work on

bus stop

i just moved into a little apartment above a bus stop, and it's becoming good practice for eavesdropping on conversation (as many people down there are not talking to anyone physically present) and it's leading to that conclusion i drew with this proposal--we're often praying and we don't know it

i saw a friend yesterday and was talking about this concept, and he said he'd heard that prayer was just begging, and that god was an adult's imaginary friend

the man's prayer this morning who i was overhearing was simply this: 

i want it all!!!!