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Art for the Knowing Nose
Peter De Cupere’s “Tree Virus” sculpture wasn’t much to look at: a dead, black tree rooted in a craggy white ball suspended over a dirt pit, all of it covered by a plastic igloo. Built on a college campus in the Netherlands in 2008, the whole thing might have been leftover scenery from a Tim Burton film if it weren’t for the outrageous smell.
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It is so true that smells can take you back in time. Whenever I smell fresh rain on hot tarmac I think of being 4 or 5 years old, in the playground at school.