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The Fruits of Crowdfunding
It’s a whole two months since my crowdfunding ended and, hidden between satisfying crowdfunding rewards and producing works for an...

Michael Borkowsky
Sep 1, 20151 min read
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Why Do You Wear Perfume?
…that’s the question I want you to answer! Perfume As Practice, my research-led residency at Bank Street Arts, is really beginning to...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 14, 20151 min read
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Introducing my Online Pop-Up Shop!
One of the perils of renting a studio is the ease of which you can accumulate all sorts of junk, half finished projects, old bits of...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 12, 20152 min read
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Playing with Poetry
Positioned in between satisfying my crowdfunding rewards and waiting for perfume materials to arrive, I find myself in a brief period of...

Michael Borkowsky
Aug 7, 20151 min read
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Studio Spaces, Perfume & Video Game Coding
Over the last week I have been doing a fair bit of juggling; visits to BasementArtsProject, Leeds and Access Space, Sheffield have...

Michael Borkowsky
Jul 20, 20151 min read
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FLUX – An exhibition about change in a changing place
FLUX is an exhibition that seeks to ask questions of change and what change means to the individual. FLUX is devised and curated by...

Michael Borkowsky
Jun 24, 20151 min read
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Reflecting on Crowdfunding
And so, after 50 days of patience, persistence and promotion, my crowdfunding campaign has ended – although it will still be live for the...

Michael Borkowsky
Jun 8, 20152 min read
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Last Week: From Liverpool to London
If a week is a long time in politics, then how long is it for an artist? Well, to answer that awkward and clumsy self-imposed question,...

Michael Borkowsky
May 21, 20153 min read
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Travel Perfume
In the midst of setting up my crowdfunding and really cracking on with this perfume lark I have neglected to write a blog about an...

Michael Borkowsky
Apr 21, 20151 min read
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In Praise of Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding. It’s a term with increasing relevance and, as an artist, I find it an increasingly viable means of – not just acquiring...

Michael Borkowsky
Apr 18, 20152 min read
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Scented Thoughts #1 – Scent doesn’t equal memory
‘Scented Thoughts’ are blog posts that seek to document thought processes towards the principles of scent and how scent exists in our...

Michael Borkowsky
Mar 7, 20151 min read
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Choosing Chocolates
Acting as an appendage to Speculative Studio Spaces, I present to you some perfectly crafted chocolates. These are no ordinary chocolates...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 21, 20151 min read
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Research as Advertisements
My research findings towards perfumery have so far proved to be of great value – as a novice to perfumery, it has been fascinating...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 13, 20151 min read
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Perfume as Language
Much like the contents of a perfume bottle, my thoughts towards perfumery are unknown, mysterious and confusing. Having only just begun...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 8, 20153 min read
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More thoughts towards Speculative Studio Spaces
A visit to three separate arts organisations over two days last week has reinforced my Speculative Studio Spaces body of work. Enthused...

Michael Borkowsky
Feb 4, 20153 min read
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Bottled Up – Thoughts Towards Turning Ideas into Perfume
If we think of the reasons why an idea within creative practice remains unfinished, the implications are that the artist thinks the idea...

Michael Borkowsky
Jan 10, 20153 min read
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Charting My Year of Change
2014 has been a joyously productive beast with a tenancy to provide moments of reflection and a degree of transiency. My practice has...

Michael Borkowsky
Dec 19, 20144 min read
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Speculative Studio Spaces
Studio spaces. What are they? Are they a form of refuge? a highly personal space that demands the removal of inhabitation? A platform...

Michael Borkowsky
Dec 6, 20142 min read
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An invitation to my Open Studio & Pop-up Exhibition
As part of Yorkshire Artspace’s Open Studios I am running a two-day exhibition at Exchange Place Studios. The exhibition will act as a...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 20, 20141 min read
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Artists’ Paint Colour #4 – Cups Stacked on Top of Each Other
Taking ideas from artists and turning them into paint. Each paint is already primed with implications and preconceptions based on the...

Michael Borkowsky
Nov 8, 20141 min read
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