In April 2022, Moremen Gallery presented Olfactory Haptic Scores, an exhibition that brought together Marcos Lutyens’s research into sensory substitution, neurodiversity, and expanded perception. Curated by KJ Baysa, the show introduced a series of works on layered Duralar that chart the artist’s long-term investigations into cross-sensory processes developed with stroke patients and autistic children in clinical and therapeutic environments.
Each drawing—made with acrylic ink, pencil, and ink on two translucent sheets—creates a floating, depth-rich field that visualizes the subtle exchanges between smell, touch, color, emotion, memory, texture, and sound. The diagrams embedded in the compositions map neural pathways and perceptual circuits, suggesting both the fragility and adaptability of the human sensory system. These layered surfaces offer a sensation of subliminality, as though the viewer were encountering cognitive activity taking shape beneath a membrane.

A companion audio induction invited visitors into a temporarily heightened olfactory–haptic state, echoing the therapeutic exercises developed through Lutyens’s collaborations with clinical communities. In this setting, drawing functioned not merely as depiction but as a portal into sensory recombination, neuroplasticity, and embodied imagination.
Olfactory Haptic Scores positioned itself as an intimate yet expansive exploration of how perception can be gently rewired, opening a space for quiet contemplative attention and deep sensory reflection.