Smell in Space
Smell movement
Samantha Miller – A9 – Smell Notes
Assignment 9:
Documented the smell notes of my apartment and the outside corridor and balcony! Each smell is colour coded. The tightness of lines represents potency, so the lines that radiate with more spread are lighter smells. The line’s distance from the point represents how far the smell travels. If it’s a dotted line – it’s very pleasant, if it’s solid – it’s pleasant, if it’s dashed – it’s unpleasant.
A9 – Smell Notes – Luke
The lovely smell of coffee walking to the beach after everyone was topped up and ready for the wet field trip. There wasn’t much to compete with the smell of coffee until it died down/we were right on the beach.
This was a sketch of the small trail bridge over the back of Lost Lagoon; which had quite a bad smell coming from it. I remember as nice as the imagery/visuals in the area were, the smell overpowered and did not make for a nice ‘space’.
Assignment 9 – Smell Notes | Anna Finn
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.
Assignment 9 – Smell Notes | Livia Newman
Location: Cannon Beach, Oregon
Emotions and/or memories: The smell of the beach reminds me of my childhood, it is instantly recognizable and takes me back in time.
Smell experience: In a technical sense the smell of seaweed and fish isn’t overly pleasant but the whole multi sensorial experience that elicits pleasant memories makes up for it
Colours, words and/or textures: Green/blue, wavy, salty, crisp, fishy
How do the scents make you interact with the space you are in: Depending on where I am on the beach I have the desire to linger or the desire to move on. Walking past people eating tacos and drinking hot chocolate on the beach fills the air with warm cozy feelings (making me want to linger), whereas the smell of piles of seaweed and slimy rocks make me want to move to somewhere else on the beach. The cold crisp salty air is pleasant but best enjoyed walking or it gets too chilly.
Duration and intensity: The smells are mostly intense and experienced the entire time on the beach
