Wrote about scent for New York’s brilliant
@basta.magazine , on
@nicehangover ’s stunning new book ‘Reports from the Nose’ coming soon with Glasgow’s
@lunchtimegallery press.
On the occasion of the launch — in Glasgow on May 16th at
@good_press , London soon after! — I reviewed the book’s themes of interiority, photography through text, and a sense of belonging possible via olfactory encounters.
‘Reports from the Nose is a collection of writings about smell and scent, (first published as a series of beautifully designed letters). Moving between essay and poetry, the texts explore Emma’s relationship to scent through everything from perfume to the everyday smells of moving to a new city. In the book, smells structure her sense of self and belonging in years of movement and change — moving to new cities, living between Oslo, Glasgow, Rome and London. They also interrupt, disappear and confuse, and using language to describe them regularly exposes the limits of words. While many of the texts are anchored in different perfumes, the project as a whole deals with a larger idea: what smells mean to one’s identity, and how language might grasp something that is both intangible and ever-present.’
Gratitude to Emma and
@caitlinmerrettking for inviting me to write about the work. I loved this book so much, and its gorgeous design; get a copy soon and inhale the salted warmth of your skin next time you stroll x
