Salt Bride
We’ve told you in the past about how salty the Dead Sea is (http://bit.ly/2bplPHN), but it can be hard to comprehend just how much salt is really in the water. Now an artist has come up with an unusual visual.
Sigalit Landau submerged a black dress in the Dead Sea for two months in 2014, and called the result “Salt Bride”. She took photos of the transformation, and you can see the results at the end of the two months; the black dress is completely encased in salt crystals.
The Dead Sea has a salinity of 34%, making it one of the saltiest bodies of water on the planet. That’s anywhere from five to nine times saltier than the ocean. Anything left in the lake for a long period of time, or any other very salty solution, will start to collect salt leading to elevated concentrations of salt around the object relative to the surrounding water. Salt next to this saltier solution will seed crystals (nucleation), beginning the process that turned the dress from black to bulky sparkling white.
Photos of the transformation are on display at Marlborough Contemporary museum in London, England, until Sept. 3.
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Photo Credit: Sigalit Landau/Marlborough Contemporary and Matanya Tausig http://bit.ly/2bVpvid References: http://bit.ly/2bVrymv http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36477284