Sept 5, 2008
Los Angeles, CA
Yesterday while down at the gallery showing a friend of ours my “Wok the Dog” show as that he could not make it to the opening reception on Sunday, I came up with this idea of incorporating “Scratch n’ Sniff” as part of the next presentation of the series.
Say there would be images along the wall of the gallery as per an usual exhibition of an photographic series. Then there would be an installation of 4-6 images in the center of the gallery that would have been treated with “Scratch N’ Sniff” technology – the images would be typical of the series, meat vendors, piles of meat and what not, such as the image above. When you scratch the image, there then would be the smell of say pork chops, fried chicken, hamburgers, roasted duck and etc – adding another dimension to the overall objective of “Wok the Dog”.
I posted this idea on Facebook this morning and I have gotten quiet a few very enthusiastic responds from friends. Elif Savas, who is always brilliant, even suggested that we treat the image with some red paint or what not so that after you scratch it with your nails, there would a bit of red paint stuck to your fingers. I think that is rather awesome.
So now, I have to figure out how to make scratch n’ sniff!
