2. subway armpit

3. me after a walk

4. the food things in the boiling water in convenience stores

5. animal manure

6. river

7. babyshit tofu

8. that sulphuric waftiness (i don’t know where it comes from)

9. car bus motorbike exhaust

10. burning metal

11. chinese cigarette smoke (heavy)

12. fish gone bad

not shanghai:

1. potatoes

2. dryer sheets

3. wood fire

(all tonight!)

there is a part of my walk from work that smells exactly like shanghai for the last few days. i think it comes from

dug up pipes

recently poured concrete

humidity

resin smells like a chinese street market

Sissel Tolaas’s exhibit ’TALKING NOSE’ features bottled air samples from 200 neighborhoods in Mexico City and a map of the locations

“You’d be hard pressed to find a cookbook dedicated to Chinese fermented tofu, which, in Western texts, is often described with a scent akin to rotting corpse.”

ewwwwwww

shit’s nast