This project began as a seasonal exercise to photograph one monumental salt pile as though it was a personal mountain range, in way to distort context and scale. I hoped to use this stock-piled road salt to create a romantic collection of moody landscapes, documenting my seasons in the city. Shed a tear, think of the salt stores. This year, it has been harder and harder to photograph the piles. The salt stores are a measure of the wealth, budget, and environmental policy in this city, and have generated a significant amount of controversy in local news. A guard sits in the trailer on the grounds, and a barbed wire fence surrounds the far perimeter.