Salt Works

About this pack

Salt Works dries the tide. Pale stone is crusted white with salt bloom in fine joints, and a second course is stained through with muted brine-green algae. Brine-worn boulders come bare or with coarse salt crystals packed into the gaps. Plain pitted stone under a salt bloom, polished dark slate with a cold wet sheen, warm terracotta brick dusted pale and a bone-white salt crust carry the structure. Brine-bleached timber, silvered and dry, pairs with tar-sealed boards, an upright post bound in broad bands of salt-stiffened rope, and its cut top showing pale rings under a white salt rim. A shelf of warm copper evaporation pans, stacked salt sacks, wooden rakes and brine jars, a coarse heap of white salt, a tarred iron plate and brine-marsh turf flecked pale finish the set. Copper is the only warm note in the palette and it appears on one block. This is surface artwork only: nothing glows, nothing is transparent and no block behaves differently.