I once made a performance on floating. It was called “How to make your own dead sea”. Essentially, I had to put 23 kg of salt in my bathtub. Then the salt lifted me. How can salt change gravity? It’s a super complicated formula that was discovered by Archimedes. You first have to calculate your volume. Then you put the right amount of salt in your bathtub.
The water: there is velvety, soft + the salt content is high. So it’s ideal for floating. Different light conditions seem to lead to different floating conditions, strangely. Pelicans fly overhead as one floats in this tropical seascape.
V.Z. Salt is what makes the sea into something that can be eaten - potentially. It is the taste of the sea. It is what stays on the skin, on the furniture, on the walls, on the bed sheets after the water has dried.