Humans cannot smell sugar's purest crystal form. Our brain recognizes a 'sweet scent' only because we associate sweet taste with the material. The Scent Catcher is a hand-blown device to capture the 'smell of sweetness' that does not exist. The solution contained in the glass vessel diffuses and evaporates, collected by the glass catcher above. Participant picks up the lid of the Scent Catcher, experiences the 'sweet' smell within, and at the same time finds a sentence engraved on the inside that says 'Sweetness is not a scent.'
Title:
Sweetness is
a taste,
a gesture,
a letter,
a voice,
a sensation,
a chemical reaction,
an association,
a collection of the past,
a continuity entangled between being,
a cloudy appearance of remembering and re-remembering, scattered by the ever-present droplets
Disseminating in random directions until a moment of equilibrium
Sweetness is not a scent
[engraving on the inside of the Scent Catcher]
2019