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The Golden Record is a futuristic 'perfume organ' much like those used by early perfumers that had tiered levels to organize essential oils. Its scented blocks are components of an original perfume and are illuminated by a custom-programmed LED panel. The blocks light up in a pattern recalling the alien communication signals from the climax of Steven Spielberg's 1977 visionary movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Voyager I was shown at Smith Farm,, an illness and cancer recovery center and was curated by Kóan Jeff Baysa, writer, critic, curator and physician. The original intention for this piece was to enable people to change their roles within and around medical technology from passive to active, and to rethink how the body communicates with bodies foreign to it, by using non-visual sensory perception to break down the “Close Encounters” perfume and identify its respective components. Spielberg's Close Encounters is one of the friendly alien movies, and perhaps a positive vision for people dealing with diseases like cancer, nothing short of a hostile takeover.

The shape of The Golden Record references PET scanning devices, now frequently used in cancer detection, as well as experimental physics facilities like the Large Hadron Collider. In both of these forms, particles are flung around a central core by magnets at hyper-speeds. Structures like PET scanning devices and the LHC also help us visualize future hyper-drives for space travel. In the future, it might not seem such an unreasonable thing to consider travel or at least communication with nearby star systems. For example, the closest extra-solar rocky planetary body that happens to be in the “habitable zone” of its star is Gliese 581 d, a mere 20 light years from Earth.

In 2011 The Golden Record Voyager II was presented as a steering and orientation device akin to that used by the reptilian Sleestaks on Star Trek. As Voyager II exits the heliosheath in the next few months to years, it begins a long quiet journey into interstellar space in search of other sentient beings. The sculpture meanwhile accesses the depths of the human psyche through the olfactory nerve in the reptillian brain. Somewhere between science and science fiction we know the truth of our existence.