Could we ever again smell flowers driven to extinction by humans? RESURRECTING THE SUBLIME is a collaboration bringing together cutting-edge scientific research and a series of immersive installations, allowing us to smell extinct flowers, lost due to colonial activity. The ongoing project is by artist Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, smell researcher and artist Sissel Tolaas, and a team of synthetic biologists at Ginkgo Bioworks led by Dr Christina Agapakis, with the support of IFF Inc.
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Digital reconstruction of the extinct ‘Leucadendron grandiflorum (Salisb.) R. Br.’ on Wynberg Hill, in the shadows of Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa, imagined sometime before 1805. That was the year the flower was last seen, not on Wynberg hill, but in a collector's garden in London, England. Its indigenous habitat had already been lost to colonial vineyards and pine plantations.
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Learn more at RESURRECTINGTHESUBLIME.COM