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| Pink-ness No.6 by Lisa Z. Morgan, 2001. 14cm x 4cm x 4cm. Perfume, laboratory glass, handmade box lined with hand dyed 100% pure silk. Edition of 100 |
“Pink-Ness No.6”. Edition of 100. The intention behind communicating pink-ness in a non-visual
manner liberated this rosy hue from its more manufactured and debased,
exterior, associations, such as Barbie, candy floss and bubble gum. I sensed
that an odour could make manifest my feeling of the pink as it has the ability
to capture emotion and access the vernacular of bodily or instinctive
understanding. Smells pass into and out of our bodies, tracing our internal
landscape with their tides.
Spatially, within the scent itself, I wanted there to be
tiers of permeating aromatics, so that the scent moved and developed as one
engaged with it, shifting with time and temperature. The first intake of breath
should have an emergent powdery waft, doused with a heady odour of rose. This
more literal association towards pink was a means to disarm, to dilute
resistance to the approaching intimate experience. The scent awakens with the
temperature of the body and it slowly ascends to a deep and visceral fecund
pink. The sexual smell of bodies merging and being sensorially open. One could
converge with its fragrance as much in the groin as in the solar plexus. At
this point, one no longer thinks of pink ‘things’, rather one comes to know the
pink via direct internal experience.
Pink-ness No.6 is currently part of the exhibition Selling Sex at SHOWstudio, London which runs until 1st June.
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