Carter Williams is a reporter for KSL. He covers Salt Lake City, statewide transportation issues, outdoors, the environment and weather. He is a graduate of Southern Utah University.
Editor's note: This article is published through the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a solutions journalism initiative that partners news, education and media organizations to help inform people about the plight of the Great Salt Lake .
SALT LAKE CITY — Olafur Eliasson doesn't travel much anymore, but he remembers feeling at home when he visited the Great Salt Lake's vastness when he made a pilgrimage to Robert Smithson's iconic Spiral Jetty.Having grown up in Iceland and Denmark, he'd spend his free time hiking, climbing and doing anything else imaginable in wide swaths of open space."I could easily identify with these barren lands. ... There was this wide landscape, but you stand in front of it, and you wonder, 'Is this now two hours or two days to go to that rock? Is that a small mountain close by or is that a big mountain far away?'" he said, recalling his first visit. "The scale is so unusual. ... I felt actually quite close to the landscape."That experience partially influenced the world-renowned artist's latest venture, which uses Great Salt Lake's nature in a new way to highlight its importance. It will be temporarily on display at Memory Grove in Salt Lake City, 300 N. Canyon Road, beginning on March 26.Eliasson, known for pieces like "The Weather Project," "New York City Waterfalls" and others that blend the environment in public spaces, uses a large balloon — approximately 30 to 40 feet in diameter — that will project a nearly 30-minute "visual journey" about the lake in his Great Salt Lake piece, he explained to members of the Great Salt Lake Collaborative on Wednesday.He also teamed up with UK-based music producer Lewis Roberts, known by his stage name Koreless, to take the sounds of Great Salt Lake water and wildlife to complete the experience.Together, "A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake" is a natural concert that seeks to highlight the lake's other residents, providing them a unified voice."I call it a symphony, as if there was an orchestra of all these animals playing together," Eliasson said. "I wouldn't call it music, but I would also not call it not music ... and I do think one could dance to it." Olafur Eliasson tests a model of "A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake," his latest piece that will be temporarily displayed at Memory Grove in Salt Lake City. A free nightly event displaying the piece will run fro
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