Desertification and the impact of biodiversity loss is the biggest problem of the earth today. The growing salt creep spreading through once vibrant landscapes is a direct result of human activities. Salt exposes the ecological vulnerability and fragility of the natural world and its interconnectedness. The land is affected by the climate and the climate is affected by the land. Ironically as animals we crave salt, yet our salt mining and farming has created huge environmental damage. We need courage to acknowledge the scale of human impact, to see the imperialised landscapes of the past for the battered remnants that they are now. By attempting to restore the natural balance, by preserving ecosystems, conserving the salinity of certain landscapes and restoring others we accept the damage we have inflicted. Delicate salinity, just like delicate moisture contents have to be maintained for all desert inhabitants. Salinity and desertification acts for me as a metaphor for the imbalance in archived desert histories from a predominantly male perspective. Deserts are historically depicted as bleak, places of despair, barren, unworthy, unimportant landscapes. Lands to be conquered. Yet appearances can be deceiving. I have always found deserts to be places of bounty and benevolence. Their obvious cornucopia is so contrary to the way we have chosen to represent these isolated arid interiors. What needs to be reclaimed is a balance, an alternate view, a fiercely female perspective, largely underrepresented and unexplored in the historical archive. I want to correct this imbalance, recognise the necessity of natural salinity and ‘paint salt pink’. The colour represents the missing feminine story.