Laura Symes, Fractured Silence (PLACES WILDERNESS 2025)

Cracked and crusted by time, this salt lake in Victoria’s wilderness reveals a delicate tension between stillness and desolation. As water retreats, salt spreads across the earth in fractured patterns — natural lines drawn by light, wind and heat.

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