Salt blocks

Cattle salt (salt, trace elements), food colouring; cast

I developed these salt-lick blocks for the project „ rated breaking points - artistic interventions along a fault line through Carinthia“.

„The formal language of these objects is rooted in the split nature of the Carinthian soul, and subtly blends into the natural landscape of Carinthia. The material employed is also connected to traditions: salt licks, as they have been used for the nourishment of domesticated and wild animals since ancient times. Cast into a new mould, it serves animals and humans: to be looked at and touched, tasted and smelled. A purely natural product.“
Gerhard Pilgram

The sculptor Thomas Kosma helped me with the clay models, and produced the moulds for the salt-lick blocks; it was also his idea to dye some of the blocks with food colouring (brown, red, and yellow).