Cycle, wave, contraction, overflow. Grief moves through us each in indefinite rhythms, personal and collective intensities. In this workshop, scent artist Leonora Zoninsein guides participants in using the temporality of distillation to create a space for holding and evolving grief together. Bring an object that holds some sorrow and/or one that emanates a brighter perspective. We will listen to one another with the witness of water as we run these materials through the still, curating a dense expression of our capacity to sense a path of growth and change, and leave with something new to hold onto in the form of a hydrosol.

Leonora Zoninsein is a Brazilian American artist exploring ecological relations through sensory media. She is a Research Scientist at Gallatin College/New York University’s Wetlab and makes custom blends and conceptual fragrances through her scent studio, NIGHT AIR.