Air pollution and its effects are silent, the smog and its various ailments are invisible to the naked eye. Nevertheless, they are constantly around you. Over time, they accumulate and damage your body and lungs.

“Food is the priority of populace” was an ancient phrase used by the rulers of China, which meant that food was essential to life. As human civilisation progresses, we are becoming increasingly discerning in our dietary requirements. A wide range of ingredients are being innovated to satisfy and surprise people's taste buds. Meanwhile, air pollution lingers beyond our senses: too small to see, to subtle to smell. Some pollutants even deaden our olfaction, making it hard to identify the hidden dangers of air pollution.

The project explores how invisible and uncertain pollutants can be incorporated into objects of visible precision, satirising their aesthetic and ethical over-representation in modern society through the visual media of photography and film. The air we breathe every day contains exhaust fumes from cars, harmful gases from smokers, coal pollution from barbecues and indoor coal burning, formaldehyde from interior decoration, plastic pollution from rubbish burning and so on. This project takes these invisible ingredients that lurk in the air, and develops traditional recipes that highlight their tastes. Soufflés that taste of smog; cookies that taste of engine exhaust, or Meringues that taste of plasticity, all make people question what is entering their bodies, and how they can become sensible to them.