Holly Pitre
"Second Natures" 
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"Second Natures"
2010

A stack of white salt slabs are gradually eroded by a mountainous peak of blue ice. As the ice slowly melts over a period of several hours, it carves into the salt slabs as they absorb water and color. The blue cavern then starts to grow upwards, mutating the topography of the salt stack into an entirely new landscape.