A fantasy of how cyborgs would smell in the future. Would a sensor/analyzer, a convertor/actuator and a screen help the cyborg for knowing the physical feeling?
Scent: toxic luminous paint, glue, rubber.
sketch
I believe that our physicality cannot fully represent ourselves. My inner self should break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly, growing freely and wildly. Putting the copper wire onto human skin in order to represent the contrast of softness and stiffness. The colorful scented dots represent the blossom of inner personalities.
Scent: green, sandalwood, lavender.
"One sand, one world, and one flower, one paradise" --Buddhist Sutra
"一砂一世界, 一花一天堂"-- <佛典>
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
-- William Blake
"The sacrifices were finished and the drums were rounded up.
The transfer of flowers in the hands of the more intersecting and dancing,
Beautiful women sing freely.
The spring is for the orchid in autumn and the chrysanthemum,
The long time is never until forever."
Altar
Research
foot bath, which is one of the contents of TCM foot therapy, and is also a commonly used external treatment method. Soak your feet with hot water, not only to relieve fatigue, but also conducive to sleep. At the same time, adding some Chinese medicine to the water can also play other roles. Soaking feet in hot water can improve local blood circulation, get rid of cold, promote metabolism, and ultimately achieve the goal of health preservation. Soaking your feet with appropriate Chinese medicine also has a certain effect on an athlete's foot.
Foot baths have a history of thousands of years. The earliest documentary record is the "Elbow Reserve Jifang" of the Jin Dynasty, which has a history of more than a thousand years. Soaking feet is the key to health preservation. It can remove human blood garbage and diseased sediments, clean the human body, and resist various diseases. Soaking feet has a very good auxiliary effect on the treatment of many diseases. People often say: "The rich take tonics, and the poor have their feet." It can be seen that the foot bath has a great effect.
Benefits: (1) Promote blood circulation.
(2) Stimulate the acupuncture points, reflex areas and meridians of the feet.
(3) Good auxiliary effect on the treatment of many diseases.
Collaborators: Jingxuan Wu, Ziyu Ma, Yinuo Ma
Collage
Jewelry Design
Video Montage
"Coffee Relaxation" Sound Editing
Collaboration by Yooyeon Nam, Xinyi Xie, Yinuo Ma
The body - phantom that only appears in the mirage of the mirror, and then only in fragmentary fashion - do I really need genies and fairies, and death and the soul, in order to be, at the same time, both visible and invisible? Besides, this body is light; it is transparent; it is imponderable.
Drawings
Motion Pattern
Video Montage
Song by Sigur Ros - Glósóli
Looking at the environment around me, the people, and stuff, I noticed the most common things related with all of them— electronics and luminousness— not only myself, people nowadays are surrounded with flushing screens, posting bright, charming, gorgeous images and informations. Eyes become so important in people’s daily lives. People use eyes to hear, feel, and smell so many voices, noises, and taste that pointing to their bodies and minds just like a sharp knife. However, they never notice that they have not been in the darkness—quietness— for a long time.
Scent briefs:
Color: Black, dark, gray
Smell: sweet, flower, freshness, greens, vanilla, fiber, mint, tea
Feel: wet, cold, soft, fluffy, tangible.
For this project, I intend to create a “dark space” that would allow the viewers to use other senses such as tactile impression, hearing and smell to feel the world instead of using eyes.