Lavender Bomb
This functional piece is inspired by a particular product from the Gorilla Perfume Line of Lush Cosmetics.
It is a lavender based incense type of scent named "Lavender Hill Mob" that was created to depict how a community in London joined forces to defend their home which was being attacked by a mob that set the village on fire.
The smell is engaged when a piece of charcoal is burned and small pieces of lavender are thrown into the charcoal to be burned as often as the user desires. It was my first time to encounter this particular type of method of Incense Burning. Upon encountering several versions of this perfuming technique from other companies as part of my research on Perfumery, I noticed that most stores that sold this product did not sell any holders or devices to hold the incense and the charcoal. They had just advised me to use a steel device from the kitchen that would not burn.
I was then urged to create a holder based on the design of a bomb. I enjoyed the concept of creating a bomb that disperses something that brings peace instead of destruction.
It is made of hand blown borosilicate glass and only holds a small fraction of the incense as it burns. The lavender only burns for a period of 1-5 minutes, but injects a very powerful scent into the air.
top photo by JL Javier, 2024
bottom photo by
Anna Frumenti, 2021
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Goldie Poblador is a visual artist who merges glass sculpture, performance, and video into multi-sensory installations that address themes of climate change and the emancipation of the female body.
Artist Biography
Goldie Poblador is a Filipina visual artist who creates multi-sensory installations that merge glass scent, sound and performance that address themes of ecology and decolonization as it relates to the emancipation of the female body.
Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally at such institutions as Artpace, The Corning Museum of Glass, Urban Glass, 601Artspace, The Knockdown Center, Saudi National Museum, The Rubin Museum, Singapore Art Museum, Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Fine Art Museum of Hanoi, Lopez Memorial Museum, Art Fair Philippines, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, The National Museum of the Filipino People and The Cultural Center of the Philippines.
She is the first Filipino artist to be acquired by the Corning Museum of Glass. She has received grants from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the University of the Philippines, the Puffin Foundation and a President’s Scholarship from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has completed residencies at Artpace, the Corning Museum of Glass, Oakspring Garden Foundation, MASS MoCa, and the Cité International des Arts. She received her BFA in Studio Arts from the University of the Philippines in 2009. In 2015, she obtained her MFA in Glass at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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