scent-as-a-letter-of-self

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date: sept 2024 - may 2025

tools: arduino, html, css, js [p5.js + vanilla], scent curation, physical fabrication

OVERVIEW

what is it?

an interactive scent-based installation that invites users to write a letter to a scent curated based on letters written to myself from 2016-2025

intent

for my senior year thesis project, i aimed to reimagine portraiture through the lens of scent and explore the iterative nature of identity that can manifest in the form of letters.

PROCESS

cycle 1: aug 2024 - oct 2024

cycle 2: oct 2024 - dec 2024

cycle 3: jan 2025 - march 2025

cycle 4: march 2025 - april 2025