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Salt Wall & Salt Wall Inverted

halftone plotter printed wallpaper,
salt mine wall, Salina Ocnele Mari, Romania

2016/17: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge
2017: Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary
2018: Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga

Swallowed in the belly of the earth
smelling salts of the Ocnele Mari mine reawaken memory
in the veins of your body and in the veins of the earth
of millions of evaporated seas

or the salted ocean beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon
perhaps harboring extraterrestrial life

the deeper you delve into strata
(((eons of minerals compressed)))
the further out into space you find yourself traveling
( ( (eons of atoms expanding) ) )

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--- Marianne Shaneen, from Everywhere Possible Therefore True

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