SALT LANDING

SALTSCAPES / SALINAS / SALT FIELDS

Exploring some material qualities and creative geographies of salt, through the prism of:

- archival research,

- geoscience and landscape studies

and

- geopoetic fieldwork/journeys

Geoscience and landscape 1: Geology, salt repositories and entombment

Geoscience and landscape 2: Sea-salt harvesting landscapes; unique transformations; age-old landscape manipulations - between land and sea, tidal processes and ecology.

- IMAGES: http://www.flickr.com/groups/paisajesalados/pool/page2/

- IMAGES: Salt Landscapes - Satellite Views

Archival Research 1: Salt-working, and salt-workers

Pathe Archive film stills

Archival Research 2: Salt and Land-Art

- Spiral Jetty (and its changing landscape - images)

Archival Research 3: Salt in alchemy

"Salt is the third element in the trinity of the alchemical substances in the Great Work. As mercury is the water aspect, sulfur is the fiery aspect, so is salt the form aspect (salt is a crystalline form, or crystallized energy). So it is also a name for the ‘prima material’, for the stone of the philosophers."

Fieldwork/Journeys 1: Salt Routes - Ritual, poetic, mythic and functional, Hopi/Native American (see 'discussion zone' above)

Fieldwork/Journeys 2: Contemporary - Road-Salt imports - journeys (see 'LAB Fieldtrip' link above)