Christine Klassen Gallery  2022

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transportation of salts

 

Society has grown accustomed to a complex industrial agricultural system that pollutes water, land and food with abundant chemicals. As is, it threatens the ability for the planet to sustain agriculture as we know it. 

 

Geologic and hydrologic processes bring salt to Earth's surface over time, but human activities such as mining, farming and land development are rapidly accelerating the natural "salt cycle." Agriculture, construction, water and road treatment, and other industrial activities can also intensify salinization.

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"If you think of the planet as a living organism, you can accumulate so much salt it could affect the functioning of vital organs or ecosystems". - from phys.org

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These photographs were made at the edge of a salt flat in Lethbridge county AB. The "reliable" toy tractor tires retrieved from the salt flat were cast in hydrostone, and the dehydrated red plant salt and pickled seabean's were both handmade from salicornia rubra plant samples from the site.