When CANJUNE opened their flagship boutique–cum–multipurpose concept space Aroma Joint, I was invited to design the menu for the adjoining cafe.

For each illustration, alongside a given menu item is a “captive plant specimen”—one of its aromatic source ingredients held inside in a solid, geometric form. This mixture of still life and the abstract evokes a sense of suspend- ed animation, the essence of a living thing held inside a container, waiting to be released.

Presented in double-spread, picture book format, this series of illustrations is an airy, imaginative journey through Aroma Joint’s distinctive scentscape