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Last update: January 17, 2004 - "The smell of things"
Finished:
Jan 3 , 2004

: "Multimedia" (revisited) "The smell of things" - "Le parfum des choses" - "Il profumo delle cose" - "Das Parfüm der Sachen"

Jan 25, 2004
 
 
The idea


Since last October, even though I decided that the "Multimedia" piece was completed, something had remained unsatisfactory to me. The panel on writing, touch and smell, as shown here left, did not really satisfy me. The idea of 'touch' (so important as a current weakness of electronic multimedia) was acceptably represented by the hand and fingerprints - but what about smell?
Some image or symbol of smell had to be found and added. What?
For the last 2 months I turned the problem around my head. As often serendipity came to help. Yesterday, fumbling into my briefcase I noticed a tiny sample bottle of perfume 'Hermès - Equipage'. Eureka! That was the idea.

Put a few of those perfume sample bottles standing next to the 'smell' word. I could construct a tiny shelf to hold them in place.

 


My wife had several tiny bottles of parfum samples.


Ma femme avait plusieurs petits flacons échantillons de parfum.


Mia moglie aveva alcune bottigliette campione di profumo.


Meine Frau hatte einige Probefläschen Parfüm.

Execution


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Le travail terminé à gauche
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Il lavoro concluso a sinistra
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