Salt, like the sun, is an ancient yet present force—a material residue of light and absence, a bridge between deep time and the body As of April 2025, we are in Solar Cycle 25, which began in December 2019. This cycle is approaching its predicted peak, known as the solar maximum, expected around July 2025. During this phase, the Sun exhibits heightened activity, including an increased number of sunspots, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These phenomena can significantly impact Earth's space weather, potentially disrupting satellite communications and power grids, while also enhancing auroral displays like the Northern and Southern Lights. Solar cycle 25 is the current solar cycle, the 25th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. It began in December 2019 with a minimum smoothed sunspot number of 1.8.[2] It is expected to continue until about 2030.

sun cyles/rythms: The solar cycle is a natural cycle the Sun goes through as it transitions between low and high magnetic activity. Roughly every 11 years, at the height of the solar cycle, the Sun’s magnetic poles flip — on Earth, that’d be like the North and South poles swapping places every decade — and the Sun transitions from being calm to an active and stormy state.

thoughts: “what is god as this omnipresence. the untouchable. this web of photons around, within. allover. be touched by in every second without ever having the chance to touch this/it yourself. …is salt the essence (?), the child of the entanglement of sun and earth.” we always just think of presence of water as the essence of life. but also the slow extraction of it, resulting in a form of crystalized absence of water is the essence of life salt making as a ritual of bringing movement to water (planetary and intracellular) Salt is solar matter crystallized—the residue of evaporated seas, an archive of sunlight embedded in the Earth's crust. It moves with the breath of the Sun, dissolving and reforming, marking time not in hours but in the slow, precise language of mineral and light.Salt becomes here a carrier of this tension: the embodied archive of solar presence and the crystallized absence of water—a sacred paradox. The film enters into the mystery of how salt, which emerges through the complete extraction of liquid, becomes essential to navigating fluidity itself—both planetary and intracellular. It proposes that salt is the child of the entanglement between the sun and the Earth, the mineral that knows how to hold absence, the body that knows how to pulse with memory. “Absence is a form.”