Inhale (2025). Materials: Paper, native Australian essential oils. Crease design by Jun Mitani.
inhale
WAMA Art Prize 2025
When: 6 Dec 2025 – 9 Mar 2026
Where: WAMA National Centre for Environmental Art, Halls Gap, Victoria
We take 22,000 breaths every day, quietly registering the scents in the air around us. Inhale is a series of origami pomanders, each infused with essential oils distilled from native Australian plants.
These folded forms carry lemon-scented eucalyptus, honey myrtle, Australian sandalwood, rose-scented tea tree and anise myrtle. Together, they compose a sensory portrait stretching from the dry deserts of Western Australia to the subtropical rainforests of New South Wales.
Inhale invites you to pause, breathe, and rediscover the diversity of Australia’s natural scentscape - an unseen but essential ecology that connects breath, body and environment.