Diane Armstrong, SALT BLOOM (AERIAL 2026)

Bathed in golden light, Salt Bloom captures the quiet poetry of Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre from above — where minerals and sunlight combine to form nature’s own abstract art. At the heart of this vast salt lake, concentric rings of mineral bloom like a desert flower, their delicate edges tinged with rust, blue, and ochre. Salt Bloom invites us to see beauty not in abundance, but in transformation — where even salt can blossom.

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