On Sound & Smell
2019
Talk. Caird Hall, Dundee. Dur. 7 mins.
This is the mushroom cloud of nuclear bomb ‘Fat Boy’ detonated over Nagasaki, 9 Aug 1945.
Credit: Charles Levy, U.S. National Archives.
Wrinkled peach (Rhodotus palmatus). Credit: atlasobscura.com.
Jelly ear, also known as wood ear, black fungus, or Judas’ ear (Auricularia auricula-judae).
‘Fragment from marble head’, 2BCE, Roman. Credit: The Met, New York.
Truffle hog and fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), postcard, 20c.
Common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus). Credit: Mary Whistling Wind.