Salty > Sour Seas Project
Salty > Sour Seas invites participants to create a public installation made with pH test paper as canvas and local river and ocean water as paint. The paintings create visual records of the water’s acidity levels, inviting an embodied relationship to changing ecosystems and the water on which so many lives depend.
The project features community events centered around phytoplankton popsicle tastings, cultivating open exchange, reflection, and the sharing of sour refreshments. The tasting events focus on sourness as the main taste and point of departure for conversations on souring seas, the future of the Boston Harbor, and interconnected oceanic ecosystems. The sour phytoplankton popsicle tastings create a space to explore the unexpected sourness of taste, address concerns about the undesired acidification of seas, and emphasize the crucial role of phytoplankton in producing oxygen for the Earth’s atmosphere.