In the 1977, when Florin Ion Firimiţã lived in Romania, he bought a few notebooks and started a journal. Several thousand pages later, The Salt Diaries has become an artistic laboratory, a source for the artist’s mixed media artwork, photography, and fiction, including his novel Reliquary. In 2003, it became the basis for Brian Kamerzel’s documentary film, The Art of Leaving. In 2010, musician Martin Meyer started working on a concept music album based on the journal. "Fragments from The Salt Diaries" is the result of this unique artistic collaboration. Florin Ion Firimita is a visual artist, professor, and author who trace’s his interest in art back to his father's modest amateur photo lab, in Bucharest, Romania, where he was entrusted with mixing chemicals, developing film, and printing black-and-white photos, at the age of six. His interest in drawing and painting started around the same time, under the influence of his mother, an art teach...