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Perfume Portrait #123 – Liz Griffiths

Michael Borkowsky

Nov 12, 2019
1 min

Perfume Portrait #123 – Liz Griffiths

Liz Griffiths 50ml EDT Head – Peppermint, Bitter orange Heart – Spike lavender Body – Chamomile Description – Formulated to release your throat charka; this light, fresh fragrance describes how creative action acts as a voice. Griffith’s drawing, Untitled, was made on a bus journey, allowing the motion of the bus to guide the pen; it is part of a larger series made mostly in London, this one was made in Cornwall. Using this process, Griffiths is exploring ideas of authorship

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Perfume Portrait #118 – Agatha Smith

Michael Borkowsky

Nov 7, 2019
1 min

Perfume Portrait #118 – Agatha Smith

Agatha Smith 50ml EDT Head – Mandarin Heart – Rose, Clove Body – Ylang Ylang, Cumin seed Description – At first glance this fragrance references a traditional, deliberate floral design. However, hints of spice add personality and exploration that allow it to break its own monotony. 177 Woolwich to Peckham is the first piece from Smith’s Pocket Drawing series. Her most recent work is focused around the realisation that everyone in the world is living a life just as complex

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Here and Now

Michael Borkowsky

Jul 3, 2017
1 min

Here and Now

I have been invited to submit small scale works for Here and Now – an exhibition at ASC Studios, London- later this month. The exhibition has given me further opportunity to acquaint myself with cartography and, particularly, the capacity cartography has for symbolism and hidden language: I present to the exhibition two postcards, each depicting and exaggerating our collective relationships with travel, experiences and sense of place. These postcards harness the notion of a p

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