I am spending the summer across the street from my childhood home. Nostalgia comes through the air in the form of sulfur due to the hot springs steps away from my home, where I used to spend each night dipping in under our vast dark skies. Taking the smells as I find place on a loop that captures moments in a map where I lived, recreated, trained, and worked all in under thirty minutes in my tiny town of twenty-four hundred people. I will utilize new yet now traditional GPS mapping throughout the project as they create similar functions as we carry into our non-geographical maps. Beyond The app screen grabs, we have a pictorial map of smells as seeing myself as a child would create, then we have physical artifacts also connected with scent but with sounds heard in their space as to connect senses further.

Map

Left to right take a walk in flowers with their accompanying sounds as they each represent a space with in a moment

Apple Bloom
Small Yellow Flower
Blush Pink
Pine Plus White
Purple With Leaves
Yellow and Blue

One response to “Walk #1”

  1. I think that it is really interesting to map nostalgia through the lens of your childhood self. There is something very compelling about seeing the GPS map alongside the snapshot map with hand written notes. The GPS feels much more sterile, while the hand written map feels personal/intimate. My favorite thing that you’ve done here is record the sounds that the flowers (and yourself) here/heard. I wish that you would have labeled your audio files so that we could connect each flower to its ambient surroundings.

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