Funeral Hues explores the translation of images through different methods of transposition, to question the importance of image, process, and aestheticism. I draw on images from a personal archive of Vietnamese heritage, relating to a cultural and intergenerational disconnect. 

 

My method involves commercially bought perfumes as mediators, sprayed directly onto colour digital prints of an image that releases ink that is then transferred by pressure onto cotton.

 

As the saturating aroma fades, it leaves a sense of transience and lessens the initial saccharine filter, drawing the audience to the intimacy of the underlying images and the power of fragrance to ignite memory. The heavily mediated images create a visual tension between mark-making and forms of representation.