I’m sure you’ve dipped into the sea and unwittingly swallowed a mouthful of salt water.
This is more or less the sensory experience presented by Cuban-Dominican artist Quisqueya Henríquez, who in 2002, invited the attendees of her exhibition to grab a spoon and dip it into an incredibly appetizing-looking turquoise ball that was like having the entire Caribbean Sea in your mouth. It went down salty as hell.
It happened in Chicago and New York, and also in the Dominican Republic, where young and old lined up in front of a refrigerator to taste something that in a few hours more or less was going to be little more than a memory.