Fragrances by Denise Meles

"I was born in Italy in La Spezia in May 1985, after less than a month of life they took me to the South Tyrolean mountains where I grew up in close contact with nature. It was very beautiful and I was very alone, my consolations have always been little magical things like lying down in a meadow on August nights and waiting for the stars to fall. Everything has always had its own smell, even the letters of the alphabet I learned at school, words, numbers, colours. I have a synesthetic mind and this has always contributed to developing in me a great hunger for anything that could stimulate my senses. I attended the art school up to the fourth grade, even if I then graduated in languages after a break of a few ye...