The salt dome/barns are an unusual architectural form. Resembling gargantuan breasts or pyramids, they appear in either pairs or singles around the countryside and cityscape.
The dome/barns found in Ontario function as storage repositories for industrial salt and sand mined in Windsor and Goderich. The dome shape fits the piled material inside, mimicking ancient forms of salt piling. (See the Interior Views section). During the winter, snow clearing crews distribute the minerals on highways all around the province.
The photographs are picturesque in a strategy to elevate the banal and industrial. The structure is historic, with its complex cone of shingles supported by carefully shaped wood. Its replacement; tall shallow-peaked steel buildings. For example, the 2019 steel barn North Service Road and Central Ave. in Windsor, occupying what was once a wooden dome. (See the Steel Barns section, for examples).
Over time the collection has become a historical archive of these unique structures.
Materials: Archival pigment prints
2007-ongoing
