a scent of wonder

Two artists Leslie Hill and Helen Paris approached me with their Wellcome-sponsored "On the Scent" project, which is an installation/performance project to investigate the potential of smell to trigger memories and emotions. . . . There will be four chambers: reminiscence, false scents, making scents and on the scent. "Reminiscence" will be a sort of olfactory museum of smells from different times and cultures, designed so that people will encounter a range of familiar and new odours depending upon their age, ethnicity and place they grew up in. [more>]