JIALAN SUN

II Out of Box

This is a group project.

The idea came from poor Pratt students who smell like a combination of smoke, toothpaste, and coffee.

The mouth is made of clay and cardboard. We painted them so they looked more realistic and gross.

We used coffee, mint toothpaste, smashed tomatoes, and cigarette to create the scent. The magnifying glass invited the audience to emerge with this installation.

The ambiance sound was a combination of chewing and swallowing and restaurant noise.

I The Citrus

I made a pair of earing with baked and dried peels of orange.

The scent is sweet, fresh, sour. The organic scent of orange.

III Protective Mask

For this project, I made a mask filter with fresh flowers and wood sticks. The filter is a fence-like shape, and the flowers are on the mask, like veins. Because the mask always has an industrial smell, so I wanted to create a filter.

The scent is green, fresh, mint.

IV Wearable Avatar

I created four scents to represent the four different emotions in a person's life, which were said to be 酸甜苦辣（sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy） in China.

Sour: lemon

Sweet: candy and sugar

Bitter: Burned corn leaves

Spicy: dried chilly and chilly powder

I put them into airbags. The airbags seal all the emotions, saving me from drowning into them. There is "Saver" printed on the airbags too.

VI Magic in Music 1

This is an improvised performance based on the music provided.

The scents are burned bay leaf, pepper, and ginger powder. I combined traditional Chinese dance and holy music. It's the collision of two different cultures.

V Utopian Body

This is a group project. The head represented the mortal container, and the scent represented the immortal soul.

Different types of fabric represented all our group members. The scent is a combination of all of our shampoo or body wash.

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VII Magic in Music 2

This is a sound piece. I recorded the cooking sound and writing sound, representing me writing homework while my family is cooking.

The scent is a combination of my own smoke and the smoke in the scent kit. I also added some dark wood to represent ink of writing.

VIII Nine Songs

This is a sound piece I created based on the poems written by Quyuan from the Warring State Period.

I read the second last poem with the background music of 'King Lanling Entering the Battlefield'. The scent I used was oak and dark wood.

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X Ritual Alter

XII Sanctuary

I started with bed, which was the safest place for me. And then I thought I can extend that to more about mother or birth. So I used the image of a god in the traditional Chinese tales, Guanyin, 观音菩萨. One of their jobs is to send children to parents. My mom always told me that I was sent by Guanyin. So I took photos of a child form and a Guanyin form and projected the picture on both sides of a corner. Then I put a sheet on the ground so people can curl on it like a fetus.

I asked my mom and my grandma to record them singing lullaby, and put the speaker under the sheet. So when people lie on that, they will hear the sound of them singing just like their mothers are actually singing beside them.

The scent is my own body node plus my sweet node and the sweet node from the kit, and a little orange peel.

XI Magic Potion

The object I create to contain scent is one side of a female's breast. It is an eatable container created by flour and yeast.

I was thinking of a mother nursing her child. A child is actually born within a mother's body. She uses her own nutrition to nourish another person from a zygote to a human form. Breast milk isn't only milk to me, it is more like a combination of milk and blood.

The content or the scents are heavy cream and hand-made cranberry jam. Even the jam represents the blood, I still want it to be sweet and sour. If a woman becomes a mother of her own will, she's probably happy and proud of herself. So I want that scent to smell sweet, but becoming a mother is hard and tiring, so I use sour, so people will not forget the hard work a female put in.

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