Visitors won’t see a physical artwork; instead they are led into a chamber where they can play with several atomisers filled with essences extracted from seaweed, charred seashells and firewood, calamansi and white flowers, incense woods and uprooted mangroves that were collected from the village of Shek O on the southeastern coast of Hong Kong Island after the typhoon.
— Santa Monica fragrance designer Haley Alexander van Oosten's installation, "The Ripening of Mangosteen: A Scent Offering in Fragments", is part of the exhibition To See the Forests and the Trees, looking at the loss of trees in Hong Kong after Typhoon Mangkhut in September 2018. More information at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center.
