The salt forced people to trace roads and to generate routes around the world,
The payment and exchange currency determined the settlement of populations,
It allowed to keep a relationship among communities and to trace cartographies in memory.

Getting close to this piece implies relinquishing what is known about the thing to accept an invitation that proposes not one but several routes to enjoy it. In the first place, we recognize certain objects that are part of our usual imaginary. If the glance is a little insistent, the journey becomes a constellation, and then poetry emerges...

One about the things we have closer
One about the homemade stuff
One that takes us to the surface where we can name, count, and sing.

s a l - s a l a - r i o
[salt- salting- river]

Salt to nourish life
Salt to conserve death

(tongue that licks the stone)

s a l
[salt]

Offering to the goddesses of fertility
sacrifice to the gods who heal wounds from waiting hands
Gods who forbid looking back.

Is it, perhaps, a dream full of fish?
Or is it the nostalgia for the sea?



Ana Milena Gómez