MinJi Park

I explore material storytelling—blurring the boundaries between the tactile and the conceptual—through books, space, and research. Recently graduated MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

About

Projects
1. Flaneur
2. TerTor
3. Daydream
4. Refresh for Connection
5. The Sensoria
6. 5Days Museum
7. Jungle
8. Monthly J
9. Paper Collage Series

Tags
Publication, Space-based,
Photography, Package,
Real-world, Paper, Installation

📩 minjiparkystudio@gmail.com

Flaneur

2024
Perfume Branding, Package, Photography, Scent Formulation

8.5 × 6.5 × 4 in. Box,
2 × 4 in. Perfume Label,
3 × 3 × 1.5 in. Paper Kaleidoscope,
Foraged Branch,
Photography

A Quiet Archive of Wandering

This perfume evokes a multisensory walking experience in Chicago as a stranger. Through scent, touch, and image, the piece holds onto fleeting impressions—memory, preservation, and the trace of the everyday—captured in tactile objects and still moments. A kaleidoscope refracts the city’s fragments, while the scent lingers like a half-remembered path.

Flaneur is a French term used by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire to identify an observer of modern urban life. It captures the process of not knowing where you will end up, collecting objects, remembering old places, and getting to know new places. The objects are scented with herbal and woody fragrances reminiscent of Lake Michigan.