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In sculpture, salt returns to the sea

Posted: Monday, Feb. 18, 2013

Jeff Siner - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

Artist Motoi Yamamoto works on his latest saltwork in the Robert Haywood Morrison Atrium at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, NC on Monday, February 18, 2013. Yamamoto is creating the temporary large-scale work out of salt entitled Floating Garden in the buildings atrium from February 18th through March 1st. Jeff Siner - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

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Artist Motoi Yamamoto at Mint Museum Uptown

The public is invited to the Mint Museum in uptown Charlotte to see the creation of a large “saltwork” by Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto. The temporary sculpture will take shape daily through March 1. A completed viewing is March 1 at 6:30 p.m. and on March 2, before it's all disassembled on March 3.

The saltwork creation leads up to a Mint Museum exhibition, “Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto,” March 2 through May 26. Staff reports

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