Hawona Sullivan Janzen uses salt as connection to the past

Hawona Sullivan Janzen uses salt as connection to the past

Salt is both metaphor and medium in a new exhibition at Form + Content Gallery, featuring Hawona Sullivan Janzen.  Called “(salt: for anyone who ever lost someone),” the installation comes out of the artist’s explorations into who her ancestors were and her search for connection to the past.  The work grew in part out of a project called “The Black Faces Reclamation Project,” where Sullivan Janzen would search on eBay, thrift stores and other pl…