Maki Ueda – Page 14

SCENTS OF GEISHA

intervention (2013)

Maki Ueda (JP/NL)

To the traditional geisha, scents were a tool of her trade. During this causal intervention in the lobby, a geisha will entertain your sense of smell, using a variety of such tools and skills. But she is also a member of the Camera Japan audience, so you may well spot her watching a movie, having a drink or making chit-chat. Who knows, if you stick around, she may surprise you too!

CAMERA JAPAN Festival

I used:
ylang ylang for the flowers on hair,
agarwood for veil, rose for fur fan,
sandalwood for the other wooden fan,
ylang ylang for blue paper flowers I folded for kids,
and amber for myself.

PHOTO: HENK JAN KAMERBEEK

_TILDE

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Collaboration with inframance, inc. Five different textures of tonic and milk offer the users sensitivities for skin and touch.

perfume _ tilde_

An olfactory artist Maki Ueda developed for the fragrance of [tilde_] with the image of “skin tone”. It is not too sweet, somewhat dear, and transparent. In the old Japanese language, there was no clear division in expressions for the color and the smell. For example the word “niou (fragrant)” meant not only smelling nice, but also meant that the color of “beni” looks vibrant. (The color is in between red, pink and orange). There is a perfect example in the oldest poem book “Manyoshu” edited more than 1000 years ago. The poem is about the beauty of a woman who is standing under a peach tree. The pink color of the blossoms is reflected on the chin of the woman. He says that the skin color of her chin is “niou (fragrant)”. Such unique Japanese sensitivity, somewhat synesthetic, became the starting point for the “skin tone scent”.

inframince.inc (http://inframince.jp)

Maki Ueda (http://www.ueda.nl/)

OLFACTORY LABYRINTH VER. 5

– Invisible Footprints –

space installation (2019)

“Olfactory Labyrinth ver. 5″ is a finalist for the Art and Olfaction Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent. The Art and Olfaction Awards celebrate excellence in global independent and artisan perfumery, and experimental work with scent.

DATE: Oct 12, 2019.(premier) – Dec 08, 2019
VENUE: Kiyosu Haruhi Museum of Art (solo exhibition)
CURATOR: Nana FUJIMOTO
SUPPORT: Yamamoto Perfumery Co., Ltd.

[Story]

Olfactory Labyrinth is a series of space installation for researching space exploration navigated by the sense of smell.

As I walk a dog daily, I noticed that dogs live on the totally different layer than us: on the layer of smell. They play power game or attract each other by leaving footsteps, pees and poops: they communicate each other with smell for the purpose of protecting territories and reproduction. The scent includes abundant information identifying its sex, age, and size.

Compared to them we human beings can communicate very little with the sense of smell. This installation questions us about the scent-driven communication.

Green Slippers: Cis 3 Hexenol
Light Blue Slippers: Eucalyptus oil
Blue Slippers: Rosemary oil
Red Slippers: Lavandin oil
Orange Slippers: Orange oil(Colorless)
Yellow Slippers: Limonen
Brown Slippers: Pine Needles oil

The stamp pad is self designed, and the solvent is also self composed accustomed to the behavior of the clay.