On July 12, 2025 Tanya Quick shared her human mindedness through a stunning time-based installation. The artwork is about the bigness of mother nature as well as the intimacy of ourselves and asks us to consider what it means to be “worth our salt.” She did this through video portraits at both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans paired with piles of road salt.
Then in October, federal ICE raids began to take over our neighborhoods. Instead of using our streets to connect us, they became dangerous to been seen in. Parks began to empty and the space just in front of this installation, a high school drop off zone, became a place of fear.
In accordance with Mayor Johnson’s establishment of “Ice Free Zones” at any city owned space, Facility joined in solidarity with an augmentation of “Salt” called “Salt Melts Ice.” We layered a lo-fi billboard declaring Facility as an ICE FREE ZONE to let our neighbors know Old Irving Park is a community of neighbors who are there for each other.
