Closely associated with amygdala, which is the brain region that encodes our emotions, perception of smell evokes or recalls our deeper feelings like no other perceptions. It has even been shown that sometimes olfactory likes and dislikes are purely based on emotional associations without any elements of subjective judgment. Smell are such personal experience that we could hardly have any chance to share or pass across, nor could it be reasonably describable. She has always been thinking of ways to capture her innermost feelings in response to smells. And it appears that the best way to do so is to record the smell itself. Light can be captured on film, with images digitally recorded in pixels. How about smell, whose identity is made up of various forms of molecules? While she was very young, she once attempted to store the kitchen smell into her favorite bottle and opened it up when she felt hungry again. However, the molecules danced in a way beyond her control. The only best way to record the smell, rather than trying to keep it, would be to reproduce it. Now she holds an odor camera, being the only one photographer of its kind. The camera serves as a scanner once letting in new smells, and keeps their structures in its digital memory. To 'view' them, it has to been connected to a molecule printer where same structures of particles are reproduced and released, which then trigger the same experience of odor. Now she could confidently depict the most emotional dimension of our sensory experience without the usage of a single word.
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