In-Class Exercise
These photographs were taken during our in-class site visit to the seawall and Stanley Park. I tried to take photos of places and things that either had a definite smell or things that I thought added to the overall smell of the specific place.
Top Row: wet rocks, seaweed, ocean air, crab leg
Bottom Row: Leaves on trees, rotting wood and moss, raindrops on tree branches, lichen on cedar tree.
At-home exercise
While at home, I attempted re-visualizing the smells from the site visit of the sea wall and the park. The first painting is using sea-water from Spanish banks beach, which I thought might somehow show smell through texture. For the second photo, I added raked leaves from my lawn to the water, which didn’t give much colour but made the water a bit gritty and dirty. Watercolour paint was added to both paintings to enhance the visualization of my memory of “smell” through colour.