Salt: With out it, life would haven’t any taste. Extra importantly there’d be no life, as salts play a vital half on this planet’s biology and ecology. However generally salt is an issue, as evidenced in a unusually entrancing pictures exhibit at Berkeley’s David Brower Heart.
“Salt of the Earth,” by California environmental artist Barbara Boissevain, chronicles salt on the regional scale on the South Bay wetlands. A lot of the world was traditionally used as industrial salt farms, as evidenced by the rusty-red evaporation ponds nonetheless seen by air. However recently an enormous restoration undertaking is bringing life again to the inhospitable coast, reinvigorating the marshes and welcoming birds and fish and different creatures again to their former properties.
Boissevain’s nature pictures captures these in-transition landscapes in vivid hues and alien geometries, from close-ups of jellyfish-looking crystal deposits to aerial pictures of what scans just like the floor of Mars. Native hikers would possibly acknowledge their favourite stomping grounds, from Ravenswood Ponds in Menlo Park to Eden Touchdown Ecological Reserve in Hayward. It’s lovely, but in addition hostile and alien; maybe one cause why Wired Journal deemed her “Salt of the Earth” probably the greatest pictures books of 2023.
Particulars: Present runs 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday till Feb. 13, 2026, at 2150 Allston Method, Berkeley; free, browercenter.org
