Abject Fear

Aroma palette is ozonic, metallic, and earthy. Highlights include congealed blood, rusted knives, stagnant air, and tv static wafting from a damp basement. Here, the artist has bottled a basement full of horrors. It opens with the thick, metallic, and stale scent of congealed blood. This is the iron-heavy smell of something left behind, dried into the floor, and baked into the air. This note dances equally with the sharp and acrid smell of rusted knives. It’s not a clean metal, but the oxidized, brown-edged steel pulled from a drawer that should have stayed locked. There’s a dampness here, as if some of the blades were left to corrode in a pan of water.