Silent Salinity is a ghost meadow installed at METHOD Gallery. COURTESY OF ARTIST
Have you ever wondered what salt in large quantities smells like? The sea, maybe? Sweat? Or perhaps mossier, funkier, more dank? To get a whiff of it yourself, walk into METHOD Gallery in Pioneer Square, where Seattle artist Mary Coss’s exhibition Groundswell is composed of the substance.
Groundswell explores the relationship between water, the effects of climate change, and humanity. Coss spent two years working with Roger Fuller, a spatial ecologist at Western Washington University, examining the dangerously increased salinity levels encroaching on local estuaries. Estuaries are where river, land, and ocean meet and mix—for instance, in the Skagit Valley, one of our fresh-water resources.
