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I'm concurrently exhibiting two editions of An Olfactory Portrait of the Amazon Rainforest in Dublin and Manila. These editions were selected for the exhibitions to fit their themes, and it's been fun making them for these two very different cities. The one for Science Gallery Dublin's In Case of Emergency exhibition features scents I smelled during my residency with LABVERDE in Brazil. These are things I encountered in the forest that are at risk from climate change and other human impacts.

The other one at the Manila Biennale which just opened is an edition that interprets the olfactory memories of 18th & 19th century explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt and Henry Walter Bates. I'm uncomfortably aware that these are narratives of a bunch of white guys as they were all I could find, though I intentionally picked those of naturalists. I'm still on the lookout for records that show a diversity of perspectives if you know of any (language doesn't matter) as this is an ongoing project that is one of my favorites.

(Hey, at least the one in Dublin is based on the account of a woman, of color, from the developing world and is mixed and multi in most things: me.)

Check these out in Dublin and Manila, and follow the next steps of this project and other works of The #ApocalypseProject on www.apocalypse.cc or #OlfactoryAmazon

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"If you cram a herd of 50 million elephants into a thimble, you get the density of a pulsar."

You'd think doing martial arts for years makes me less sentimental, but alas, no. 

Cry me a rainbow 1:

Cry me a rainbow 2:

Cry me a rainbow 3:

For the 2012 Sketchbook Project, where Art House Co-op and 3rd Ward very nicely sent me a free sketchbook, I included illustrations from an ongoing illustration project called Project Superfriends, where I draw my friends as superheroes based on my memories of them. The title of the sketchbook was The Encyclopedia of Superheroes You Have Never Heard Of (to follow the encyclopedia theme I picked). Here are some of the sketches:

See how the project unfolds here. 

A poster for the DrawHappy project:

It's.... Magical Rainbow Bridge Time!

For Benjamin.

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Elizabeth Streb, extreme action choreographer, for a series of articles I am writing about how drawing figures in a creative person's process.