SMELLS LIKE SCISSOR-CUT STEMS. CRUEL INTENTIONS. LA CALIMA. DEWY FERNS AND ANXIOUS MOSS. VENUS FLYTRAP GARDENS.

Tart adrenaline & chlorophyll opulence. Wet cut grass & black picket fences.

SCENE

DARKWAVE UTOPIA IS THE AMERICAN DREAM UPSIDE DOWN. WHERE METICULOUSLY MANICURED LAWNS CONCEAL A DEEP, DARK ROT. WHERE SODIUM LAMPS CAST JITTERY SHADOWS. AND ON A SUNNY DAY LIFE REMAINS WREATHED BY DECAY. WHERE NIGHTTIME IS MYTIME AND SUBURBAN PARANOIA RAGES ON.

SCENTSCAPE
  • Starts Green
  • Turns Sweet.
  • Ends with a
  • single ribbon
  • of smoke
  • tracing spirals
  • against the air.

SOURCE MATERIALS

Still from Blue Velvet, a film by David Lynch, 1986; Clan of Xymox album by Clan of Xymox, 1985; Gardlands album by Cocteau Twins, 1982; Black Celebration album by Depeche Mode, 1984; Still from Suburbia, a film by Penelope Spheeris, 1983; The Red Ceiling photograph by William Eggleston, 1973.