SMELLSCAPE: RHYTHMS WITH BOKASHI
[ Inoculated fabric, custom scented wax ]
Original sketch and essay published 2022 on The Journal of Art & Ecology
[ Inoculated fabric, custom scented wax ]
Original sketch and essay published 2022 on The Journal of Art & Ecology
SOIL: The World At Our Feet - Curatorial text:
Fatima Alaiwat’s sensuously interconnected map works as a kind of recipe or, as she calls it, a ‘smell score’, reflecting her practice of composting orange peels using a fermentation process known as bokashi. By concentrating on her sensory awareness, Alaiwat developed an intimate knowledge of and responsiveness to the technique and the physical matter before her. This sensory intimacy created a space in which complex emotional states intertwined with the practical acts of slowly and responsively improving the quality of soil. The process was underpinned by interdisciplinary writer and researcher Maria Puig de la Bellacasa’s point that ‘what soil is thought to be affects the ways in which it is cared for, and vice versa, modes of care have effects in what soils become’.Fatima Alaiwat’s sensuously interconnected map works as a kind of recipe or, as she calls it, a ‘smell score’, reflecting her practice of composting orange peels using a fermentation process known as bokashi. By concentrating on her sensory awareness, Alaiwat developed an intimate knowledge of and responsiveness to the technique and the physical matter before her. This sensory intimacy created a space in which complex emotional states intertwined with the practical acts of slowly and responsively improving the quality of soil. The process was underpinned by interdisciplinary writer and researcher Maria Puig de la Bellacasa’s point that ‘what soil is thought to be affects the ways in which it is cared for, and vice versa, modes of care have effects in what soils become’.
A recipe, or rather a smell score, for composting oranges with bokashi. Exploring transmissions of intimate and sensous knowledge.
Fatima Alaiwat’s sensuously interconnected map works as a kind of recipe or, as she calls it, a ‘smell score’, reflecting her practice of composting orange peels using a fermentation process known as bokashi. By concentrating on her sensory awareness, Alaiwat developed an intimate knowledge of and responsiveness to the technique and the physical matter before her. This sensory intimacy created a space in which complex emotional states intertwined with the practical acts of slowly and responsively improving the quality of soil. The process was underpinned by interdisciplinary writer and researcher Maria Puig de la Bellacasa’s point that ‘what soil is thought to be affects the ways in which it is cared for, and vice versa, modes of care have effects in what soils become’.Fatima Alaiwat’s sensuously interconnected map works as a kind of recipe or, as she calls it, a ‘smell score’, reflecting her practice of composting orange peels using a fermentation process known as bokashi. By concentrating on her sensory awareness, Alaiwat developed an intimate knowledge of and responsiveness to the technique and the physical matter before her. This sensory intimacy created a space in which complex emotional states intertwined with the practical acts of slowly and responsively improving the quality of soil. The process was underpinned by interdisciplinary writer and researcher Maria Puig de la Bellacasa’s point that ‘what soil is thought to be affects the ways in which it is cared for, and vice versa, modes of care have effects in what soils become’.
A recipe, or rather a smell score, for composting oranges with bokashi. Exploring transmissions of intimate and sensous knowledge.