Wool and cotton, 100 x 94 cm
Salt’s practice hovers between art and architecture; an ongoing spatial experiment where line, form and space intertwine. Like much of Salt’s work, The Distance shifts with the viewers’ movement and interaction. It is an impossible built environment that nods to artist M.C. Escher, testing the bounds of perspective and geometry. Salt works intuitively to direct her process, building on interventions in the tapestry foundation which unfold in unexpected glitches and visual illusions as it develops. The viewer’s eye is bucked from point to point and forced to soften. Like staring into space, one becomes enveloped in a malleable yet static atmosphere. Caught between opposing states of action and inaction, the artwork navigates the distance between.