Art While I was unable to visit the Venice Biennale, I have scoured the internet, badgered friends who attended, and consulted various resources to unearth the one work that most directly pointed to the olfactory sense and olfactory material. Many of works included in the exhibition had tangential, suggestive and material aspects of scent. Simone Leigh’s extraordinary re-imagining of the US pavilion is called Sovereignty. Culturally potent materials like cowrie shells, plantains, raffia, and tobacco leaves have natural olfactory tones …
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Corpse Flower * Amorphophallus titanum * Mask to Protect You & Those Around You in Botanical Style
Our Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) Wallpaper mask features “Stinky” in his Denver Botanic Garden habitat. A corpse flower in captivity takes 7-10 years to bloom the first time and is unpredictable thereafter. Thus, we felt quite privileged to join the long lines to smell the garbagy, putrefying smell in 2018. I wrote about that bitter-sweet-stinky experience in “Corpse Flower Revisited, Briefly in Bloom at the Denver Botanic Gardens.” Alabaster Rhumb took the photo of Stinky and designed our Corpse Flower …
Nose Dive by Catherine Haley Epstein * Book Review
Nose Dive: A book for the curious seeking creative potential through their noses (2019) by Catherine Haley Epstein is an adventure for your nose in art, anthropology, and science. You will be amazed at how much you didn’t know about this oft-neglected sense. Epstein is an artist, award-winning writer, designer and curator. She wrote a great review of Milan’s Esxence for us earlier this year, and I was delighted to receive her book available for purchase HERE! As Epstein explains …
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Smell and Taste Reading List * Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry
*This is a dynamic, ever-expanding list of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that engages with smell and taste. In the spirit of mixing disciplines, genres and diverse voices, the list is simply organized in alphabetical order by author. If you don’t see something you think we would like, please let us know in the comments below or by emailing us at info@aromaticapoetica.com* *A* Abood, Maureen. Rose Water and Orange Blossoms: Fresh and Classic Recipes from my Lebanese Kitchen. Ackermann, Diane. …
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