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Such a long time without updating my research!

My current project, Petrichor, a odor-analogue film performance is taking quite some time to develop, but as the good wine, some time and rest will do it's magic, it's while the maturation process when it gets the most special flavors. So there I am!

For now, and this is quite a big step, I have manage to obtain some Geosmine odor, which means: I'm so close to the end smell I wanted to create!!

In the past months I've been busy filming the Tropaeolum majus I planted in our garden, here in Berlin. It has grown rapidly.

What interests me about this plant, is the reaction its leafs have to the rain, when it falls:

They seem to have a really resistant impermeable layer which reveals us the superficial tension water drops at it's peak!

Please have a look to this short clip, it's amazing how the tinny water drops get together.

head on...

Brainstorming

the earth / gravity = heavy                      the air / smell = light

the smell of wet earth,

pleasant experience.

the right balance between reality and dreams.

Perceiving the unperceivable.

the rain comes from above.

the feet is grasping the earth.

the moment of connection between the unreachable and the reachable, sky + earth / air and land,

the diffusion of the limitations, the limits diffusion.  

hands on!

While researching how to generate in a very primitive and analogue way Petrichor smell I had several ideas on how to present the odor composition together with a analogue film performance. But starting from the beginning:

I've taken 2 samples from the driest earth in my garden. Both are kept in this new plastic containers, one of them has a solid base of cotton.

They've been for more than 2 weeks on top of the heater.