“The painting smells of damp plaster on the walls of an empty room in an old house that has not been aired for years. It is not an unpleasant smell and not too far from the smell of ironing the freshly washed and still wet canvas as I did when I was making the painting. This is a part of the process but the smell is never exactly the same. What makes the smell distinctive is the memory of the picture that was on the canvas before I stripped off the paint and put the bare canvas in the washing machine. Once I am done with the ironing, I reapply all the paint on the canvas but reversed, face down, and what odour it may evoke then is a matter for the eyes. “
Pavel Büchler