Category: Duncan Chambers

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A10_Taste Rave_Duncan

Dark chocolate with orange
Lemon juice
Vanilla Fritatta
the culprit
In which eggs is in the bass, cheese is the guitar chords, and the voice (which only comes in halfway through the song [the above is an abridged version] and includes the line “blue, blue electric blue”) is the vanilla — a surprise flavour that sort of sneaks up on you. Sound and Vision is a song off David Bowie’s 1977 album, Low.
Regular frittata
Vanilla frittata
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A9_Smell Notes_Duncan

Ever since I moved to Vancouver the katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) has captured my imagination. Somehow when the leaves turn colour and fall they smell almost overwhelmingly sweet, like burnt sugar (as though there was a giant crème brûlée in the lane — a scaled-up version of the one my father makes with his butane kitchen torch). This animation represents the haptic and olfactory experience of walking under one of these trees in autumn, during which all other sensory inputs dissolve away.

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A5_Using Our Hands_Duncan

Blind drawings…something bumpy in a cardboard and plastic package and a ceramic bat? Redrawn from memory after the objects were taken away without revealing their identities.
The objects revealed. I pictured the bat as white and apparently less like a human baby. I had never seen the object before. I thought the floss would be something from the bathroom but did not figure out what.

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A3_Mapping_Duncan

Kitsilano, 15:05, September 24, 2020
Beatty Biodiversity Museum drainage and maintenance sketch diagram
The web-ready version is a little smoother

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