[urban explorers] preparation

21-23 May 2010.

Urban Explorers was a 3-day-art-festival which took place in Dordrecht (21-23 May 2010).Maki, my teacher at art science, asked me to help her for her exhibition with smells, and i was more than happy to do it. Her exhibition, SMELL X ILLUSION, was to spray various scents on a boat trip along the Dordrecht canal, using paint sprayer and 2 compressors.

On Tuesday (18 May) we met at CBK (Centrum Beldeende Kunst) Dordrecht, and had a try out with the equipment. So we filled the spray cans with 18 different smells (grass, cucumber, beer, white wine, orange juice, bread, chocolate, mocca, apple pie, bubble gum, neroli water (which smells like a wet tissue from a plane or train), baby, soap, myrrhe, and chanel 5.

spray cans

transporting the compressors

compressors on the boat

The try out went really well, thespray cans and compressors worked perfectly. The smells however, need some adjustments. Some alcohol-based synthetic smells like mocca, bubblegum, and chocolate were too concentrated and thus were too strong.The more natural smell like beer and orange juice (maki used real beer and orange juice) had the perfect level of concentration.

After the try out, we had a dinner at an Italian restaurant. I think it was the nicest Italian restaurant I’ve ever been to in the Netherlands.

pizza! with ham and egg, yum yum!

On the way back to Rotterdam and Leiden, we took a really old train (which I haven’t seen it before), and I was so amazed by the interior. I felt like being in a Sherlock Holmes movie! (the one with Basil Rathbone of course, not Robert Downey Jr).

love the colour of this old train

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