LANDSCAPE OF SALT

In October 2014, I experienced a landscape as otherworldly and barren as the Poles: the Bonneville Salt Flats, a unique natural wonder stretching over 30,000 acres of Utah. This concentration of mineral deposits are the result of the drying up of ancient Lake Bonneville in the Pleistocene era. The lake was huge, filling much of the Great Basin, and as water continued to evaporate, salt deposits were left. The Great Salt Lake is also a remnant of that. Subtle color variations were before me in this thick crust of salty soil, overrun with water from unprecedented rainfall. I also traveled to Spiral Jetty, where Smithson’s vision from the 70’s confronts today’s landscape.