Take me where the Salt is

Take me where the Salt is presents a deterritorialisation of intimacy from human to non-human bodies; an unfolding over land of desire, both specific and expansive.

These pieces were created in conversation with the Salton Sea, a body of water unfolding over 340 square miles of desert in southern California. Here, 226 ft below sea level, fluids pool. Saltier than blood or the ocean. I came from an island in the Irish sea to find myself here, drawn to this water in the desert.

Found images are reclaimed from classic and amateur pornography and refashioned though the lens of female desire (my own).

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I attempt to return to them something that may have been lost, they are re-anonymised, returned to the earth, treated with great care.

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Bodies expand, overlap and interact beyond their physical boundaries, across place and time. Stories weave.

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The body is always entangled beyond itself, in shifting webs of association and desire - imaginary or otherwise.

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Where the salt is is a marginal place - here an exchange between salt water and heat, evaporation leaving salt as a map of where water once was. Where we once were.

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Bodies talks with other bodies, a chemical code, a love song, a conversation. The truth of these interactions is what is. A material manifestation of story and memory.