Mortal Salt by Daniel R. Smith (Second Edition)

Karen Finneyfrock’s What Lot’s Wife Would’ve Said (If She Wasn’t a Pillar of Salt) is a moving poem that draws parallels between Lot’s flight from Sodom and Gomorrah and the on-going AIDs crisis circa 2011. In the hands of Daniel R. Smith this serious poem is recast as consumer parody. Replacing every word of an existing label, from the nutrition facts to the bar code, he repackaged store-bought, corporate salt canisters with Finneyfrock’s poem. The first edition of 100 canisters in sold out to collectors and institutions, including SF MoMA, Emory University, Yale University, University of Washington, and Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA). A second edition of Mortal Salt was created for a 2019 book arts exhibition at BIMA. WHAT LOT’S WIFE WOULD HAVE SAID (IF SHE WASN’T A PILLAR OF SALT)By Karen FinneyfrockDo you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth li