The Dead Sea in Israel is the lowest point on earth’s surface. Standing on the shore of this salt-sea a visitor now stands 418 meters below the sea-level. Shrinking at a rate of 1 meter a year, the water’s edge continues to retreat as the nations that surround the Dead Sea divert more and more fresh water tributaries away.
Dead Sea Level (minus 418m) is a proposal to visualize this missing body of water – to momentarily create a surface of a missing ocean 418m above a bystander’s head by firing a mortar shell firework into the night sky – the shell being constructed to climb exactly 418meters high and then explode with a blue surface of fire.
Dead Sea Proposal