This weeks project states that we are required to revisit the work we had made in the last two weeks and taking account of what we now understand to be the required approach to the project that we should reconstruct/re-organise/re-configure the works we made.
I decided to look at how I may be able to push forward on my idea of measuring the body in relation to my smell. I was thinking along the lines of science albeit bad science. I decided to conduct two experiments, one to distill a concentrate of my smell and the other to measure the gas that would be produced by the fermentation of the bandages containing my smell.
I got some big glass jars from my father and got the necessary tubing, yeast, sugar and other elements for the experiments and was ready to proceed.
In the fermentation jar I put the bandages containing my smell, sugar, yeast and warm water. To this I attached a tube with a tap and a balloon. The tap was to control the amount of gas going in to the balloon. Within minutes the fermentation process had started and the mixture was bubbling and producing gas very quickly. I decided to leave it overnight and measure the amount of gas it produced in that time.
Next I moved on to the distillation jar. In this I had the bandages containing smell and water. A tube came from the jar and passed through a condensation chamber and from there in to a beaker where the distilled solution would be collected. As it was to be a steam distillation heat was needed to bring the water to boiling point for the process to begin. In my quest to understand this I asked Jack Carter to explain it to me.
I wanted to present this piece in a way that might read science, but not so tightly that other possibilities don't exist. It needs to be open enough so that viewers can read it in there own way, make their own connections.
So with elements of steel, glass, tubing and a clean, white, cold, clinical space I present my finished piece as follows.
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