I was interested in what Ulmer said in our last meeting that orality is aural, literacy is visual, and electracy is haptic. As I was going back to my ArKive of Smells in Gainesville, I stumbled across the book I made for that class. I took it upon myself for my project to snap a picture as soon as I smelled something new. My olfactory bulbs fatigued throughout the day, so the images were frontloaded from the day where I smelled something new every minute and by the end, once every few hours. As I go back and read my short descriptions next to the photos, much like Wenders' approach, I can recall some of the smells very clearly, (ones that I encountered not just on that day but for two years), and ones that I cannot "smicture" (that is to say picture the smell, recall it, remember it).
www.esneeden.com/photobooksmellsfinale.pdf
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