The project takes its starting point from a commonly held - yet incorrect - belief that blood contains the same amount of salt as sea water. Three narrators - a teardrop, a drop of Golden blood and a droplet of sweat - tell their own stories of love and loss. The video is driven by a poetic text: an intimate verse with an ambiguity that delivers a metanarrative for lost and found identity, a scarred planet and our ever-changing world. 

The video was shot as a part of the Below Zero Art Prize in London in 2023 and edited into a single-channel version in 2024.

Nastja Säde Rönkkö (b. 1985) is an artist working with moving image, installation and text. She has exhibited internationally in places such as Somerset House, London, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, FACT Liverpool, Kiasma, Helsinki and UCCA China. Recent solo exhibitions include HAM Helsinki (2024).