Coss_M 2021 Silent Salinity : Salt Break

Name/Title

Coss_M 2021 Silent Salinity : Salt Break

Artwork Details

Medium

Metal rod, Wire text, salt and binder

Made/Created

Artist

Mary Coss

Date made

2021

Dimensions

Height

13 in

Width

16 in

Depth

20 in

Dimension Notes

13’x16’x20’

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Destroyed

General Notes

Note Type

Exhibited

Note

Allusive Structures at The EN, Seattle 2022

Note

Salt Break abstracts a wave into a salt-encrusted cross section, its wire-script crest flowing with urgent reflections on climate change. Rusting in place as it decomposes, the piece meditates on rising waters, environmental fragility, and the global minimization of water’s importance.