Foreign Bodies
I had the opportunity recently to have my hand at perfume making with Gorilla Perfumers Simon and Mark Constantine. To my surprise, the process felt much like that of making a painting--mixing smells/colors, standing back to have a smell/look and just as usually happens with painting, perfume takes time and changes.
For my first perfume I decided to make a fragrance for the opening scene of Hiroshima Mon Amour. This is an amazing film and the first couple of minutes examine the sensuality and sorrow of memory, forgetting and the closeness of bodies. These themes are particularly poignant in the realm of smell, the sense that is believed to linked most directly to memory.
Out of this came a perfume in process that I'm calling Foreign Bodies. Currently the perfume is two accords the "body" accord is a slightly indolic peppery rose and the "foreign" accord is a smokey fruit blend.
Lieing:MANIfold
Lieing:MANIfold was an installation and performance space that examined notions of propriety and potential intimacy. The central object of the piece was a futon mattress with a lair built around it out of torn stockings, architectural refuse, and books. I invited selected individuals into this space to lie down with me to do whatever they would like for whatever amount of time. I kept track of my interactions with these people in a diaristic fashion that was also part of the installation but did not document any of the actual lieings.
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