Colonies, Memory, and the Quiet Labor of Minerals Salt entered my life long before it entered my work. I grew up near the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by light, movement, and a sense of openness. And yet, the place that shaped my way of seeing the world was elsewhere — at the lowest point on Earth. The Dead Sea. A landscape that does not behave like a landscape. A place where scale collapses, where time thickens, where the body becomes acutely aware of itself. The Dead Sea a