Diary of Smells

This site documents Diary of Smells, an on-going, multi-sensorial project by Josely Carvalho in which she directly uses natural and artificial scents as protagonists among other typically dominant visual and sound components in her installations.

(2011- on-going) Smell Flasks / Vidros de Cheiro

by Josely Carvalho

Smell Flasks is a collective on-going artwork, made up of empty perfume bottles to be filled with a memory of a smell. The project started in Viana with 300 bottles and proceed to São Carlos, S.P. where 250 flasks were added. They were numbered, filed and the stories archived inside a dilapidated cabinet file drawer coming out of a wall. It is now an ongoing amalgamated project with almost 600 filled perfume bottles, a collection of smell flasks and the memories from different communities and towns around the world.