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Code: ASGTK22014
Artist: Tarisse King
Title: Pink Salts
Medium: Acrylic on Linen
Size: 60x30cm
Year: 2022
Taking great inspiration from her travels between Darwin and Adelaide, a straight dissection through the Australian landscape, Tarisse paints the surreal and changing panorama of the salt lakes.
The intense, almost Pop Art pinks, in this series mirror the sunsets and sunrises over the salt lakes. The pink hues are created by the algae, which inhabit these caustic but beautiful expanses. Tarisse then overlays the pink tones with soft metallic silver and pearl dots to mimic the salt crystals that crust upon the land. The clusters and lines she paints them in replicate the patterns blown into the salts by the incessant winds over the flat salt lake country. These painting emit an ambience of purity and beauty in finding such unique splendor in the seemingly simplest of landforms.