Perfumes, Sounds and Colors

Why having more than one passion is good for you and serves your art.

The 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem called “Correspondences” which states that the world is made of feelings and symbols we can experience that answer each other. Baudelaire might have had Synesthesia (a neurological condition that causes the brain to process data in the form of several senses at once), but that’s irrelevant. I like this poem because I like the idea that there are several ways to experience the same thing and that more than one sense can be involved. I definitely experience this in my art.