Six Continents, 2003                        

6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, 2006

Where there is salt there is the possibility of 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. From Antarctica, white salt was taken from McMurdo Bay; from Africa, gray salt from Egypt; Australia, brown salt from Western Australia; Eurasia, ivory salt from Gwangju, North Korea; North America, green salt from the Dominican Republic and South America, pink salt from Chile.