Later that year, they formed a small group of advocates with former patrons of the now-defunct Goudreau Museum to explore thecreation of a new math museum.
Patrick is worried that the importance of Langham Dome may be lost as time flies by and he feels thecreation of a museum is the best way to preserve its heritage.
Claiming to be the "first major museum exhibition to recognize scent as a major medium of artistic creation, " the show strips perfume of its extensive packaging and advertising and presents it as an "olfactory art" in a purpose-built white-cube gallery.
"The Eye of the Storm, " his solo exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York in 2005, was notable for thecreation of a massive mirrored tower that reinvented the contours of Frank Lloyd Wright's famous serpentine museum.
His latest project, titled "Song 1" a massive creation of video projection and sound has been transforming the cylindrical exterior of the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, from sunset to midnight for eight weeks (it closes May 13).