What will happen to the items left in the Dead Sea?

Sigalit Landau, an Israeli artist, has carried out an interesting project to show the unusual properties that characterise the waters of the Dead Sea. In her undertaking called “Salt Bridge”, Landau immersed the sea (Landau immersed various objects in the sea and left them there for some time. The effect? Truly remarkable!

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The main object of the experiment was a classic dress from the 1920s. A specially prepared installation held the dress in one position for three weeks. Let’s add that the task was not easy, as the dress quickly began to gain further kilograms and its weight significantly increased.

During subsequent visits, the artist and the divers who accompanied her, could observe how successive layers of salt build up on the submerged object. The progressive process of crystallisation was continuously documented, which made it possible to create extremely interesting photographs.

By the time the experiment was over, the dress was so heavy that it could not be extracted in its entirety, so some parts were left underwater. The author revealed that the idea for such an unusual venture came after reading the 1916 play The Dybbuk.

Seeing the accumulation of more and more salt at a rapid pace, we can easily realise why the fauna and flora in the Dead Sea are extremely poor.

Photographs taken during the Salt Bridge project formed an exhibition that was presented by London’s Marlborough Contemporary Museum last year.

Source: brightside.me Photo: marlborough_contemporary/instagram.com