A Participatory Multispecies Environment of Chemical Signals
Exhibition Guide (in progress, to be finished on Sep 8, 2026)
SCENT MAP
A: Powder Puff Tree
Both moths and bats relate it as a pollinator. Native plants to Ishigaki island (Okinawa) where artist resides.
B: Thymol
C: Isoamyl Acetate
The scent that indicates where fruits are. (= bats like it!)
D: Coumarin
E: Birch Tar EO
F: Queen of the Night
Both moths and bats relate it as a pollinator. Native plants to Ishigaki island (Okinawa) where artist resides.
G: cis-3 Hexenol
It is the scent that grass releases and communicate each other messaging ‘caution! I am eaten!’.
H: Isoamyl Acetate (the same as ‘C’)
I: Eugenol
It is present in nearly all the flower scents at trace amount.
J: Indol
It is the scent of ‘decay’. All living organisms will turn to this scent eventually. You might notice it as the smell of bad teeth odour. Major component of the scent of poops and Jasmine flowers.
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