Nathan Taare and Sophie Hathaway, artists based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington, Aotearoa), join forces to create Peace Tree — a performative olfactory installation that merges scent, clay, and ritual. Sophie Hathaway is a ceramic artist whose practice spans over two decades. Her work explores abstraction and form through a style reminiscent of Cubism and ancient sculpture. Hathaway’s vessels and objects are tactile meditations on gesture and structure - physical embodiments of rhythm, intuition, and the earth itself. Nathan Taare is a multidisciplinary and olfactory artist working across film, performance, and perfumery. His work explores scent as a storytelling medium - a bridge between material and immaterial, memory and experience. His practice often integrates sound, sculpture, and fragrance to create immersive, sensory environments. The pair’s collaboration is rooted in a shared fascination with the relationship between clay and scent — materials that both absorb, hold, and transform over time. Clay, as Hathaway uses it, becomes a vessel not only for form but for aroma; and scent, in Taare’s hands, becomes a living memory embedded in the material. Together they are creating a large-scale installation of scented clay amulets, each a one-of-a-kind object infused with a unique blend of natural and bio-derived aroma materials — from earthy resins to leathery, woody, and marine notes like horses, te awa, ngāhere, mushrooms, brown sugar, and leather. The amulets will be strung and suspended on a sculptural framework in an unexpected location within the festival grounds — forming a living, breathing “tree” of scent, sound, and movement. A charging ceremony will mark the installation’s activation, as the amulets are anointed with scent before being released to the elements. Visitors are invited to interact freely — to approach, smell, touch, and even take an amulet away and share it around. There are no rules at The Peace Tree other than to; its essence lies in sharing, generosity, curiosity, and exchange. Existing somewhere between ritual and installation, The Peace Tree creates an atmosphere of collective wonder — a glowing field of energy that transforms day and night, blurring the line between art and offering, between the physical and the ethereal.