Salt Prints

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These salt prints re-create the often-overlooked daily interdependent relationships that exist between humanity, nature, and the visual arts and sciences. This series focuses on a deeper understanding of the symbiotic relationships which exists between humans, nature and art and science. It points to the importance of the minute in daily lives, the things often overlooked. I have always been interested in relationships and the overlooked daily routines, the meaning it holds, the impact it carries. This series of salt prints encourages viewers to slow down, to look, and build connections or recall a memory. They translate conversations and memories from my artist-in-residency into a visual form. 

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I enjoy repurposing collected objects found in nature to translate these into visual form.  These visual interpretations of the interdependent relationships and use of natural materials aligns with my aesthetics.  This is derived from the Arts & Crafts movement where the Head, Heart, and Hand work in relation to each other and create as one.  I understands the importance of the viewers direct involvement with each salt prints subject matter. the long titles for each salt print offer viewers a trajectory in developing their own story or to recall memories.  

I work in digital, analog, and alternative photographic processes.  For this series, I chose an alternative photographic process, salt print photography. This process creates an intersection between science and art, the salinity and particulates in the Laguna Madre, as well as exposing our interdependence of others and nature. The salt print process is a historical photographic print process that uses three ingredients: salt, silver nitrate, and water. Walking each day on the beach I would carry my bucket collecting objects, the minutia that washed upon the shore. The minutiae, the organic matter of particulates and salt crystals seem unimportant, yet together they created this series of photographs.