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STORY
FUTURE
WHEN
In one future, humans are losing their sense of smell, their physical memory of belonging.
The Department of Culture for Breath is established to preserve what is dissolving: the invisible relationships and biochemical conversations between humans, plants, fungi, bacteria, and insects.
WHAT
INHALE
Auraforest.com
the digital library of lost scents from pine forests.
Five audiovisual capsules translate forest scents into multispecies stories — their struggles, romances, and conversations. Reconstructing the memory of what can no longer be smelled, describing each scent’s origins and sensory tones.
HOW
Olfactory imagination —
the mind’s way of sensing scent when it’s no longer there — becomes your guide.
Through these audiovisual capsules, forest scents are reconstructed using frequencies, light, and colour. Neuroaesthetic mechanisms translate sight and sound into the memory of smell, creating an immersive multisensory experience.
WHY
REMEMBER
SENSE
Restoring somatic memory and empathy toward other living entities.
By reimagining the forest as an active voice in a shared ecology, this work asks what remains when sensory connections exist only within a digital vacuum — a fading echo of breath, of smell, of species.
EXHALE