Baku Maeda

Japanese artist and designer Baku Maeda  has been exploring salt as a mark-making medium, liquefying it and then recrystallizing it  to make strange paintings. This is similar to the effect of using grainy cheap watercolours which leave reticulation effects like in lithography. 

Roberto Tweraser

These are lights cast from Salt, part of Roberto Tweraser's graduate show in three dimensional design at MCAST Malta. "The idea behind salt is to use the little natural local resource our country has to offer, to create something truly unique." "Salt's crystal structure makes it ideal to be used in conjunction with light, as it refracts light magnificently . . . Salt is a cast pendant light made out of rock salt combined with a small percentage of synthetic resin." Stunningly beautiful.

Yamamoto Motoi

Above: Fountain of Remembrance (after rain) outside installation with cast boat forms.

Above and below examples of Yamamoto's Labyrinth series of installations

Yamamoto Motoi creates salt gardens, intricate capillaries, spreading across floors like a mysterious language. Salt holds a strange place in world cultures, vital for our survival and part of our mythologys of love, life and death.

Often Yamamoto Motoi creates these magical intricacies and then invites the audience to gather the salt and return it to the sea.