PLANT CELLULOSE SKINS + AROMATIC MEMORY = AMAZON JUNGLE

Design Question = What are new ways of experiencing, observing or remembering an environment post visual documentation, and photographic documentation. Often times the sense of smell is the most powerful sense when one is experiencing a new environment. The smells of an environment are deeply rooted in your mental archive, and when you smell something similar to that environment your glands are activated, and you visually picture your experience in a specific place. This network of atomic sensations sends electric messages down your spine, and into your blood streams, that triggers the movement of the nostrils, that breathes in, then exhales out while visually placing you back in that environment. With this is mind this research expedition’s core focus was to fuse experimental chemistry methodologies with local + natural materials from diverse environments across the globe. This edition of experimentation took place in the Amazon Jungle using local plants, water, cellulose, plant extracts, and medicinal dyes. These materials were locally sourced, and act as perceptual colour and smell specimens of the environment in which they were made. This living archive, and capsule of the natural elements, smells, and visual properties  of the Amazon Jungle will act as a catalyst for connecting cultures, and sensory exchanges through material alchemy.

Research Components = Material Science +  Natural Fibres as Aromatic Memory

Design Components = Plant Skin + Dye Aroma + Soil + River H2O