analysing sources

Motoi Yamamoto is fascinated by the interconnectedness of living things and salt’s literal and symbolic role in the pattern of life and death. He creates stunning labyrinths, tunnels and abandoned staircases out of salt.
After he finishes displaying an installation, Yamamoto requests the salt is returned to the ocean, making its journey full circle. His impermanent sites of beauty are haunting meditations on life, death and memory, evoking Tibetan Buddhist practices where a work is destroyed after it is completed. Full of starts and stops, twists and turns, Yamamoto’s labyrinthine salt sculptures eventually become one with the Earth.

The Salty project explores how salt still connects us. We feel better when we eat together, when we cook with each other, and when we share stories.

Salty is a vessel to cook with and pass salt at the table + a print magazine all about salt.

Salt has defined human society for centuries. Ancient trade routes, also called “salt roads”, were once built to transport salt; today we use salt to melt icy highways. Salt has always been valued for seasoning fresh food, and remains invaluable for preserving food.

The sensory room, at the MAK Museum, a part of the Beauty Exhibition by Sagmiester and Walsh, where you’re sealed off with the colours of sunset, the smell of lemons and the sound of Malaysian tree frogs. Which wasn’t actually as beautiful an experience as you might think. Or the soundproof room where you immerse yourself in the beauty of music. I could go on, it’s a joyous mix of insights, ideas and items that mean you’ll never look at a spoon or a building or a cityscape the same way again. Probably.