The Salt of Dreams began with a haunting vision: a man with a harpoon in his heart, dragged from the shore into the depths of the ocean. This image—both dramatic and beautiful—serves as a metaphor for the relentless pull of the deepest and most shadowy parts of the self.

The vision resonates with The Red Book by Carl Jung, where he describes his encounters with the “spirit of the depths”—a force that emerges from the subconscious and, in this narrative universe, takes the shape of a siren: the “terrible lover” Jung associated with the soul.

Profound, unsettling, and darkly playful, the story follows a repressed painter and his platonic connection with an archetypal figure who may restore his ability to create—if he dares to leave behind the safety of the surface.