… well, SMELL OF NOTHING and, if you like, SMELL OF INDIA, given the source of ‘inspiration’. This painting is made with a piece of fabric from India, marouflayed on canvas and daubed with various pigments. As is well known, the concert of smells in the cities of that country is very varied and presents many-sided contrasts, which are superimposed on the diversity of the human and animal tumult threading through their labyrinthine alleys: sandalwood, turmeric, patchouli, toasted meat, excrement, stagnant water, etc, etc, etc. MAC.