The work interferes with the brain’s attempt to stabilize perception, keeping meaning in a constant state of change. It creates subtle mismatches that prevent perception from settling, so nothing fully becomes clear or fixed, and meaning stays fragile, always forming but never completed. Olfaction becomes a medium for disruption. Instead of retrieving memory, it interferes with it, producing hybrid states where perception and recollection collapse into ambiguous formations.
This is not perfumery, and not evocation. It is olfactory personal experimentation based on destabilization, where oil blends function as mechanisms for disrupting memory and generating perceptual artifacts. It becomes a medium to explore the darker regions of cognition and memory through a controlled anti-format engagement with perception.
A disrupted architecture of recall, exposing the impossibility of correct remembering. This condition defines The Blend/Absolute, where olfactory matter functions as a field. Perception is no longer governed by optical logic but by a Post Optical and Post Photographic Condition, in which sensory traces circulate as unstable agents.
Within this framework, smell becomes a primary structure of perception, an autonomous system of distortion, residue, and temporal collapse. This logic aligns with perceptual inference in neuroscience, where perception is actively constructed through probabilistic interpretation of incomplete sensory input. Reality is never accessed directly, but continuously inferred and corrected. From this perspective, The Blend operates at the level where perception itself is formed, inhabiting the gap between sensation and inference, where recognition fails and, perception remains in continuous reconstruction.
The Frame within AN 1/ Liminal, the frame defines the material condition through which the blend is accessed. It acts as a porous interface rather than a boundary, mediating between absorption and release. Irish bog wood is selected for its intrinsic porosity and embedded temporality. Formed in peat over long periods, it retains traces of organic decomposition while remaining structurally intact.
It functions as both a reservoir and a filter, subtly altering diffusion. Small fragments of Irish bog wood are selected as the medium for the blend, each defined by a singular identity of form and porosity. No piece is uniform; each structure modulates absorption, retention, and release. The result is a distributed system of reservoirs, where diffusion remains unstable and never fully resolved.
Its dark tonality and earth-bound scent merge with the composition, slowing its emergence and grounding it in material memory. The fragrance does not project outward but surfaces gradually, as if retrieved from within the substrate itself.
Ingredients:
100% pure essential oils, in their unmodified natural state
1. ABSINTHE
2. LIME
3. LIQUID LEATHER
4. PATCHOULI
5. LABDANUM
6. CASTOREUM