Salt Boulder on Plinth restages a vanished work within a geologic recursion, where geologically encoded time collapses and dissolves in real time. Drawing from Brinsley Tyrrell’s Salt of the City, this 2,000-pound block of salt was left exposed to winter weather outside of a gallery built over a buried Permian salt deposit that had been sealed beneath the clay of a glacial moraine. As snow and rain fell, the boulder calved at a seam of pyroclastic ash, releasing ancient salt into a present-day melt. Brine pooled, melting the surrounding snow, reaching salinity levels nearly double that of the ocean. This improbable sea, an ancient salt reactivated by contemporary precipitation, draws a line between extraction, memory, and material resurrection. The work becomes a quiet monument to deep time, dissolving and draining slowly back into its own forgotten substrate. 

Note: the final two images were taken in the salt mine located beneath Lake Erie while conducting exhibition research. This boulder came from that mine.