A material meditation. In this photographic series by Maya Bormann explores the unique physical and metaphorical properties of salt in all of it's forms.

Salt is a material of paradox—both a giver and taker of life, a preserver and a destroyer, a crystal of quiet beauty and raw corrosion. Born of sodium and chlorine, it binds opposites together in a lattice of unyielding structure, dissolving only to return, reforming itself in endless cycles. Light bends through its translucent crystals, turning the ordinary into something luminous, sculpting landscapes both microscopic and vast. It drifts between states—solid rock, dissolving current, shimmering dust—leaving traces of its presence in the air, the earth, the sea.