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Weed artwork which took three years to grow is accidentally cleared in 15 minutes
The steps should have been covered with plants. Photo: RTV Utrecht video still
The work, which consisted of a flight of steps partially covered by a green carpet of plants, was blasted with a weed burner and ruined in just 15 minutes
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The Disappearing Steps, situated behind Utrecht’s Centraal Museum, is normally in the hands of Vergroening Singels030, a group of volunteers who want to make the city greener.
‘I think the council hired a temporary worker who did not know these steps were an ecological project and that the council does not do the maintenance. I heard he was working in the area with a weed burner and that he thought he might as well do the steps as well. It was all gone in no time,’ volunteer Harmke van Dam told the AD.
What Does History Smell Like?
Researchers are finding ways to preserve scents that are disappearing. Others are recreating ones from centuries ago.
By Sophie Haigney
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The embalming of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, after his assassination in 1584 would have smelled fresh, sweet and slightly medicinal.
Candles created by Janie Korn. Photographs by Erik Tanner for The New York Times.
Anxiety sweat. Horsehair. Wet grass and soil after a rain. Sulfuric compounds from gunpowder. Eau de cologne containing rosemary, bergamot and bitter orange. A touch of leather.
This might have been what Napoleon’s retreat from the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 smelled like. At least, these are some of the elements that Caro Verbeek, an art historian and olfactory researcher, tried to incorporate when she was reconstructing the smell, in partnership with the perfumer Birgit Sijbrands, the scent designer Bernardo Fleming of International Flavors & Fragrances and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterda