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Title
Saline: geveral view toward ocean
Creator
Karavasiles, Nina (American installation artist, contemporary)
Contributor
InSITE94
Date Created and/or Issued
1994
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Description
Garden and Landscape
Sculpture and Installations
For inSITE94, artist Nina Karavasiles created "Saline/La salina" at the Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum, part of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The artist built a salt-filled trough that extended from the aquarium-museum courtyard down the hillside towards the water, creating a visual connection to the seaside, the Scripps Pier, and the ocean beyond. Alongside the trough were Plexiglas enclosures containing salt water. Over the course of the exhibition the water evaporated leaving behind salt crystals. --inSITE94
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 180)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum
Type
image
Format
Plexiglas; water; salt (inorganic material)
Form/Genre
public art
sculpture (visual work)
installations (visual works)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb5600302s
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Views
Landscapes (environments)
Piers (marine landings)
Oceans
Border art
Process art
Perspective
Public art
Sculpture (visual work)
Installations (visual works)
Mexican-American border region
Pacific Ocean
InSITE94
Place
Mexican-American border region
Pacific Ocean

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