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cylène
a homophone of [“Silène”]
Nourishment as ceremony. Restoration as practice.
Ode TO THE Originals; the Astro-Ancestral PURVEYORS OF SOURCE BODY ALCHEMY
Formulations that alter mood, sharpen sense, deepen presence, or provide escape. Ingredients chosen for origin and efficacy. Rituals for repetition or rupture.
Not wellness. Architecture for daily transcendence.
“Antillais and equatorial in origin”
Scent for skin and ceremony. Objects for ritual. Always evolving. Never finished.
What exists now began as conversation about touch, cinema, sex, honest love between a group of friends moving through New York, Miami, Hong Kong, and Paris.
The ideas arrived informally. Napkin drawings. Gallery walks in Chelsea. Late nights on Canal Street. Walks through DUMBO and Clinton Hill that became, in retrospect, research. A sustained attempt to bring the formless into form. To make consumable what could only be felt.
The method is curatorial. The audience, collaborators.