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Moondream

Moondream brings imagery from the era of space exploration into composition with original olfactory work — scents built to evoke the lunar surface and its exosphere.

I'm interested in scent transporting us somewhere outside the reach of our own experience.

Staring into light by Shannon Milar — Moondream series. Found images, wooden box, fragrance molecules. Two rocket forms from space-age imagery rise through billowing three-dimensional cotton clouds within a stained wooden shadow box. 10 × 10 × 4 inches, 2025.

Staring into light

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Moon by Shannon Milar — Moondream series. Fragrance molecules for diffusion and installation, 2025. Dust. Rock. The space just above them. A scent informed by lunar regolith studies, astronaut accounts, and research into the moon’s exosphere. Metallic air. Mineral dust. Basalt and fractured glass.

Moon

Newcomer by Shannon Milar — Moondream series. Soft sculpture, leather, weatherproofing, embroidery floss, craft paper, 2016. A bulbous dark leather form, stitched closed with burgundy embroidery floss in a spiral at its centre, trailing multiple strips of grey weatherproofed material from its crown like antennae or roots. Crumpled craft paper spills from its base. Shot from above against white.

Newcomer

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