As a part of the Art Grove installations of August 2015, I gathered data from visitors to Franklin Park's Wilderness Grove Picnic Area about their demographics and what the Wilderness Grove area smelled like to them. On the installation's opening weekend, I led "nose trainings" in person and then used installed elements over the course of two months to distribute and collect smell mapping surveys about the area. After the installation, I worked with a perfumer to develop a (natural) perfume based on the information that was collected. It is called "Eau D'Wilderness Grove".
Pop-Up: Franklin Park Art Grove is a collaboration between the Boston Art Commission, Franklin Park Coalition, the William Monroe Trotter Institute, and the Boston Parks and Recreation Department. All related events are sponsored in part by the Boston Art Commission, Fund for the Arts at New England Foundation for the Arts, The Boston Cultural Council, and the Trotter Institute for African American Studies.