This will just be a short update because I haven't in awhile. Few newsworthy items:

*I think my dissertation project is going to be curating an exhibit called "Synesthesia" and creating an exhibition catalog. This will (I hope) be sponsored by and feature various members of the MATX program.
*I finished the book "What the Nose Knows". It was great. Right now, I'm most interested in the author's argument that Proust was totally wrong in his very famous description of how smell and memory work together - that it's nowhere near as ephemeral as Proust makes it out to be, but instead our scent memories are highly concrete - the element of surprise we feel at being transported into a scent memory is that we aren't aware we are making memories of scent until we experience them much later.
*I found a place that will make scented stickers/pages etc. based on my specifications. They are not being very helpful in their e-mails, probably because they can tell that I am not a huge business wanting to spend millions of dollars. But, I think I might be able to use some of their scented stuff to make an olfactory artist's book and scent my exhibition catalog.
*I finally got my website going - it's still under construction, but here's the link:
http://web.mac.com/jessematx
*Thinking of declaring "Curating" my second area of competence and trying to get an internship at the Virginia Museum.

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