Salt Boats

The number of victims of human-made disasters continues to grow day after day. Many have drowned together with their dreams, swallowed by the sea in the final chapter of their painful journeys toward a better future on distant shores.

They boarded fragile boats, carrying them as lifeboats, yet their cries could not save them from death. The salt of the sea has dissolved their features, leaving behind only words inscribed on worn pieces of paper that tell the stories of thousands of migrants. They became the new generation of the disappeared people with no identity, no homeland, and often no graves.

In many cases, they never reach the shores they dream of. Instead, they are consumed by the sea as they flee en masse from a harsh and unforgiving reality. They leave behind wars, poverty, forced disappearance, prisons, torture, sudden death, exploding barrels, and the cries of hungry children and grieving mothers.

They travel from Arab countries seeking the possibility of a new life in Europe a life free from oppression, offering hope for work, dignity, and a secure future. Yet they depart from lands overwhelmed by bloodshed, bullets, hatred, and violence, carrying little more than hope.

Salt Boats is a reflection on migration, loss, and the fragile boundary between survival and disappearance. It is a testimony to those whose names vanished beneath the waves, but whose stories continue to drift across the sea.