and yet so ordinary. There are days when time
seems to completely slip away, and it is often
through trivial events, such as realizing that my
salt shaker is empty, that I become fully aware
of it. The salt shaker, which I had long believed
to be inexhaustible, made me nostalgic. I began
to reflect on the length of time I had used it
and the projects and achievements that had
marked this period for me. Salt measures time.
Its gradual depletion acts as a visual reminder
of time passing. When the salt is finally gone, it
symbolizes the end of a period or the beginning
of a new one.
In this theory, I imagine that if I can measure my life through objects, specifically salt, then maybe the other way around is also possible: what if salt could measure me? To explore this, I developed a crystallographe: a small program that generates artificial salt crystals based on personal data. Each crystal represents a specific period of my life, shaped by three parameters:
1. Duration, measured by my yearly salt consumption, converted into a symbolic unit: grams/year (gª)
2. Emotion, which I evaluate subjectively in terms of intensity.
3. Granularity (GRN) a new unit of measurement specific to this theory, portraying the number of significant events during that period.
and immerse them in a saline solution,
allowing real crystals to grow over the artificial
ones.