ALT(R) with Bryn Jackson

ALT(R) is a site-responsive exchange ritual that highlights scent’s capacity as a vessel for
memory and agency. Conceived in dialogue with the Soldiers and Sailors Monument—a
towering emblem of triumph and permanence—ALT(R) counters stone with breath,
continuity with evanescence.
Drawing from precolonial Visayan cosmology, the perfume is composed of botanicals
historically present throughout South and Southeast Asia: ylang ylang, citrus, sampaguita,
cinnamon leaf, elemi resin, vetiver, patchouli, and sandalwood. These notes form a
complex, woody, and floral profile—an embodied invocation of the land. Each bottle
becomes a portable oƯering, carried on the body and released into the air, making the
wearer a living site of remembrance.
The work is activated through an intimate exchange. Visitors are invited to receive the
perfume in return for a single admission: “What’s one thing you wish you’d said or had the
chance to say?” These unspoken truths—written on seed paper—will become an
anonymous, living archive of longing.
ALT(R) invites participants to move through public space as carriers of an invisible
monument—one that resists erasure not by carving ourselves in stone, but through the
persistence of breath, touch, and shared intimacy—a means of healing, and a call to
remember what history leaves unsaid.