La Saladita

The Unwritten Laws

La Saladita holds what the eye can't see: the hour two of the air's tides cancel, forty years of a creek mouth on the move, how the sea's foam divides itself into cells, how a crocodile's skin splits as it grows. These works give it a form, drawn from what satellites and instruments measured here, or computed from the science behind it, and shaped with AI and mathematics. Nature made the relationships; the artist chose how they are seen.

From skin to foam, creek, coast and air.

56 flat plates in two olive tones, one of them rust, divided by pale seams on a pale paper ground.

The Meeting of Territories

110 × 145 cmHow it was made →
Five foam-like cells in rust, brown and olive on a pale ground: four touch in a cluster at the lower left, one sits apart at the upper right.

Where the Foam Rests

80 × 100 cmHow it was made →
Thin lines, fifty-three of them, slate blue to warm gray, run down the sheet in a loose bundle, part into loops near the middle and gather again below; one rust line among them; pale paper.

Ghost of the Creek | Engraved Memory

100 × 125 cmHow it was made →
Pale cream lines, many of them, run down the middle of the sheet between a deep teal field on the left and a sand-colored field on the right, crowding into a bundle and opening into loops toward the lower right.

Shoreline Memory

100 × 78 cmHow it was made →
A single terracotta field on a warm ivory ground, split top to bottom by a winding pale opening that swells, pinches almost shut low on the sheet, and runs off both edges.

One Figure, Two Halves

120 × 150 cmHow it was made →
A deep blue field above and a sand field below, meeting along one long curve; a charcoal overlap at the left, a small rust wedge where they touch, pale paper opening between them at the right.

Three Invisible Clocks | Almost Zero

120 × 150 cmHow it was made →

Art by Addie Conner

Where the data come from

Pacific Ocean1234
  1. 1Ghost of the Creek · north creek mouth (satellite record)
  2. 2Shoreline Memory · the coast (satellite study area)
  3. 3One Figure, Two Halves · weather station in the village (approximate)
  4. 4Three Invisible Clocks · weather station in the village (approximate)

Not on the map

Coastline and rivers © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).