A radical reflection on the value and desire for sensory awareness in the experience of the real world

A transparent crystal sphere beyond which you can see the precious content, but you can’t fully experience it. A gesture marks the transition from visual experience, which is rational, limited and unfulfilling, to olfactory experience, which is dreamlike, absolute and sensual.

This moment represents an act of destruction, of renouncing presence; you can only fully enjoy the fragrance by rejecting the material world.

This is a permanent change: the crystal will break into pieces and the perfume, spreading through the air, will envelop the senses with the sublime pleasure of its fragrance.

But it will forever lose its permanence and its unique and unrepeatable olfactory magnificence. Instantly the value of the work will be reduced to zero.