Haze State at ITP Spring Show 2011

















Documentation by Haze State and Jeff Howard
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//Haze State//
Various raw materials from a specific site, Bushwick were sampled (dirt, tofu, chicken soup, clam chowder soup, pickled cucumber, tortilla, mushroom, etc). From these materials, hydrosol (perfume water) were created in-house resulting in a custom-blend, home-made mix “cabinets of hydrosol.”Re-imagining anthropological and historical context through scent-sory tableau.
These hydrosol will be the fuel/material that will be evaporated inside a custom-made system sphere that could fit human’s head. People walked into the headspace to experience the imaginary forest/woods landscape of Bushwick’s past (Bushwick from Dutch name Boswijck means “little town in the woods”) that juxtaposes Bushwick’s present (the olfactory sensation of mix hydrosols where each scent represents factories that exist now within the area).
//disticell//
Continuing with the Dumbo project, the specific exploration of this project is to experiment on experiencing scentsation of raw materials used in the past in factories around Dumbo.
In terms of structure or forms, this small experiment takes inspiration from works that explores cells or dna system as their physical structure:






Using distillation method:




I have started to build a prototype based on this sketch i made:






