Six Continents

2003, SolwayJones, Los Angeles, 2005

Where there is salt there is life. This installation consists of six sculptures made from salt taken from each continent, funnels and water. The various salts, colored by minerals from each locale, react differently when subjected to water. Each sculpture is made of a one hundred and fifty pound salt mound placed under a suspended funnel, each calibrated to release 7 drops per minute. Clockwise from front: from Australia, white salt was taken from Western Australia; North America, green salt from the Dominican Republic; Antarctica, ivory salt from McMurdo Bay; Eurasia, brown salt from Eurasia; from Africa, gray salt from Egypt; ; and South America, pink salt from Chile.