“Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will.” Patrick Süskind, Le Parfum The Scent of Place – How do we perceive and experience a place? By trying to slowly position myself here in British Colombia, I would like to capture the scents of this place. How do we recollect memories …
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“Grief is love where the object of love is cut of” Unknown When do experiences become memories? When do habits become rituals? When does time become sequenced in generations? Once the emotional factor inhabits those, our perception shifts. But how can emotions be embodied in these systems? Telling a story doesn’t necessarily need to happen …
action eleven
“Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For this last action I teamed up with Christa, and we decided that with this action we wanted to create a framework for collaborative work in which we could unfold our …
action ten
Embedding Memories – Keeping Stories Or is it embedding stories and keeping memories? I don’t know. All I know is that for this action, I wanted to look into something I picked on in action eight – remembrance. How do we remember stories? How do we evoke memories? How do we forget them? Is it …
action nine
Touch of Remembrance In my previous action I learned about the symbolic meaning of rosemary and felt that this needed to be embodied in some sort of wearable garment. I placed the piece of cloth around my wrist and it somehow shifted its association. The scales became dragon skin, the reflections became playful. I am …