Erik Benjamins

19 March 2024

  1. After-Dinner Walk
  2. Alex Reed’s Home Work
  3. Ben Sanders is Drawing at the Dinner Table
  4. Bookends & Good Hugging
  5. Bookshelves & Hard Optimism
  6. Bottega Louie
  7. Built In at the Neutra VDL House
  8. Building Block
  9. Butts of Florence
  10. Confessions of an Anonymous Recipe
  11. Crying Into the Breadbox
  12. Disintegrating Smeller
  13. Eric Payne
  14. Forgetting the Words
  15. Free Smells
  16. Happiness for Art21 Magazine
  17. Running of the Interns
  18. Schindler Centennial for Cereal Magazine
  19. Self-squaring and Double Acting
  20. Sitting Suite for Seed
  21. To Sit is to Time Travel
  22. The Spongiologist’s Mantra
  23. Use All Five
  24. Wood Fire Chicken for Lucky Peach
  25. Young Joon Kwak’s ‘The Cave’
  26. Show All

Disintegrating Smeller 2017

A short story for Spring Soap at Spring Workshop (2017) .

As an artist-in-residence at Spring Workshop, Hong Kong, I worked as a curious smeller to create and exhibit a custom-scented hand soap. As site intervention and olfactory portrait, the finished soap was complemented with some text. Found on the back of the bottle’s label, a short story told of a visiting smeller, whose body begins to slowly disintegrate.

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