Saltbound Horizon – SOUL, Salt Lakes, Utah

• Dimensions: 80 cm × 100 cm × 4 cm

• Inspiration: Salt Lakes, Salt Lake City, Utah (photograph supplied with the artwork)

• Materials: acrylic paste, paint, art resin, gold leaf, salt (from the salt lakes)

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In her work, Marx explores the contrasts present in nature: beauty versus danger, stillness versus turbulence, creation versus erosion. These tensions form the core of her three collections: The MIND, The BODY, and The SOUL.

Saltbound Horizon is inspired by the vast, shimmering salt lakes, where silence stretches to the horizon and the earth crystallizes into sculptural forms. In recent years, these salt lakes have continued to expand, serving as a confronting reminder of growing water scarcity and shifting climate patterns reshaping the region. What once was water has slowly given way to exposed salt plains, where beauty transforms into a silent warning.

This work incorporates real salt crystals from the flats, combined with art resin to evoke the retreating water. The contrast between the matte, brittle salt and the glossy, fluid surface emphasizes the tension between the presence and absence of water: a physical fragment of the landscape embedded within the artwork.

Marx’s work is layered, earthy, and bold: an ode to the raw beauty of the world, but also a reminder of its fragility. Through Atelier Marx, she invites the viewer to experience nature as a place where attraction and threat coexist in harmony, while the urgency to protect these landscapes becomes ever more palpable.

Artwork created by Marjolein Marx