Phantom Bloom is a new work by Aaro Murphy exploring memory, aroma and landscape. Blending science and poetry, the narrator reveals lost aromatic landscapes and memories. Based on two years of research into e-nose and Headspace technologies (collaborating with Japanese firm Takasago International Fragrances), the film speculates on new sensory relationships through aroma technologies. Part of a wider cross-disciplinary research project exploring aroma sensing and electronic nose technologies and ways in which they might assimilate into our cities to sense atmospheric information. The script shifts from molecular precision to poetic abstraction, blurring technology and human perception in a speculative language of memories coded in aroma.

Aaro Murphy (b. 1991) is a visual artist working across video, sound and installation. His works explore wider themes of climate, the body and technology through writing, scientific research and cross disciplinary collaborations. This research often leads into time based installations that explore connections between the organic and synthetic.