"Salt: Without it, life would have no flavor. More importantly there'd be no life, as salts play a crucial part in the world's biology and ecology. But sometimes salt is a problem, as evidenced in a strangely entrancing photography exhibit at Berkeley's David Brower Center. Salt of the Earth, by California environmental artist Barbara Boissevain, chronicles salt on the regional scale at the South Bay wetlands."
"Much of the area was historically used as industrial salt farms, as evidenced by the rusty-red evaporation ponds still visible by air. But lately a massive restoration project is bringing life back to the inhospitable coast, reinvigorating the marshes and inviting birds and fish and other creatures back to their former homes. Boissevain's nature photography captures these in-transition landscapes in vivid hues and alien geometries, from close-ups of jellyfish-looking crystal deposits to aerial shots of what scans like the surface of Mars."
Salt is essential to biology and ecology and also shapes regional landscapes. A photography exhibit at Berkeley's David Brower Center chronicles salt across the South Bay wetlands. Historically much of the area served as industrial salt farms, leaving rusty-red evaporation ponds visible from the air. A massive restoration project is restoring marshes and inviting birds, fish and other creatures back. Photographs capture in-transition landscapes in vivid hues and alien geometries, from close-ups of jellyfish-like crystal deposits to aerial views resembling Mars. The show runs through Feb. 13, 2026, with free admission.
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