My upcoming residency at Orchard Square provides me with the opportunity to purchase new equipment, props and materials by virtue of a £500 materials budget.
It’s an offer seldom presented to me, but provides me with a perfect excuse to improve the quality of the materials I use, purchase props that authenticate my exhibition spaces and even purchase furniture that allows me to present my perfumes in subversive or unexpected ways, potentially extending our knowledge of how fragrance can be perceived.
My first purchases have been essential oils. Good quality ones that will enhance and improve the quality of my perfumes. It’s amazing the difference a well sourced and good quality oil makes. The new Frankincense I have purchased has a depth and delicacy that alludes any Frankincense purchased previous – which smell somewhat burned by comparison.
The process of shopping itself is rather cathartic and revealing as it provides a means to order my thoughts and decide definitively what I require. Which hopefully will amount to a well considered and focused residency; only 1 month now until it begins!
