“Synesthesia” combines the sense of smell with the memories of the Cypriot Refugees that lost their homes in 1974 during the Turkish invasion. Growing up in a divited country, Panayiota heard many stories about the war. What stood out the most was her grandmother’s words about her lost homeplace: “The city was full of orange trees and everywhere you went the smell of orange blossoms prevailed”. Even though Panayiota never visited her grandma’s city, she created “Synesthesia” which combines a visual and smell-related meta-memory of orange trees near the seashore.
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Images by Violetta Wakolbinger
