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Smells: scents, perfumes & fumes
Design: line, point & shape
Colour: hue, value & saturation
Smell sketching: research
SMELL REPRESENTATION
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Liquids scents: “oil” with alcohol base and distilled water
• rain – cassis, bergamot,
sandalwood
• urine – urine + frying pan
• red wine
• cellars – corked wine
• cheese
• strong coffee – soaked granules
• drains – U-bend contents
• flowers – Versace bath oil + vodka
• artists – brush cleaner/turps
• parquet flooring – floor wax
• perfume – Paris by YSL
PARIS
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Gaseous scents: “trapped” into black velvet inside plastic bags:
• bread
• thick sizzling steaks
• Gauloises
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Stored in identical bottles
• cabbage water
• malt extract
• corked wine
• urine + ammonia
• wrappers
• penguin food
• rose oil
• newly-cut grass oil
• cappuccino oil
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Rejections:
• vomit, alkaloid
manufacturing site.
Changes after research:
• zoo poo = zoo jobbies
= penguins
Smells never found:
• biscuit factory
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Stored in identical bottles
• further research needed
• chef’s hat/fan detritus
• moss, water, stone
undergoing testing
• plaster dust + water
• toxic
• should be classed as toxic
• undergoing testing oil or
cooked sausage, fried not
baked
• bovril
• requires agitation
• a long process
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Thinking of smell as a visual… with location, range, intensity & direction
AXES of SMELL
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Deep in Manhatten’s Lower East Side, a summer odor lurks. Identified as arising from 284 Broome Street what is it coming from?
NEW YORK
Thinking of smell as miasma, what would we see if we could see smell, how does it move amongst the city buildings?
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Smell connections, flow, lack of delineation. A smellwalk in colour.
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Notes from previous Manchester smellwalks represented in colour and intensity based on transcribed data.
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Individual Top Notes in Colour •19 World Cities
19 CIT IES“Scents of Departure” as a point of departure…
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19 CIT IESSmell-colour DNA and smell-colour circle targets for 19 cities based on perfume combinations
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14 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 1 13 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 4 2 1 1 1 14 = 90%13 = 80%04 = 70%03 = 60%02 = 50%01 = 40%
7 = 90%6 = 80%5 = 70%4 = 60%3 = 50%2 = 40%1 = 30%
50% B, 20% M, 25% T40% B, 30% M, 30% T
Calculating Colour Opacities • 19 World Cities
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Smell-colour DNA strands…
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Creative recording of smell data collection includes watercolour, sketch maps, lists, collage.
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