Dissolution is a series of handmade photographs contemplating Great Salt Lake at the edge of ecological collapse. The images hold two realities at once: the lake is beautiful and it is imperiled, one of the richest bird ecosystems in North America and a shoreline littered with the dead. The striking pink of the northern arm makes for lush pictures; it is also a sign of evaporative decline.

The prints are made from the lake itself. I gathered salt crystals from the shore and dissolved them into a solution, soaking sheets of cotton paper before painting them with silver nitrate in a darkroom. The resulting silver-salt prints — one of the oldest photographic processes — are contact-printed from digital negatives and toned in gold. Each is genuinely one of a kind, bearing the unpredictable marks of working with impure, lake-sourced chemistry.

There is a reason the materials matter. By folding the lake's own substance into the image, the prints become less a record of a place than a fragment of it — elemental, tactile, and as impermanent as the body of water they describe. Dissolution asks whether it will be the lake or us that ultimately falls apart.

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