This new series represents a succinct body of work influenced by traditional forms and techniques found in both Western and Eastern armor design. Interested in the process of protecting oneself, Salmon imagines a system of plating, reinforcing, masking, shielding and strengthening that implies the vulnerability of a physical body that is not present. Her fierce, organic and often ceremonial objects offer a labor-intensive solution in response to the current moment of impending climate crisis and political violence, attempting to predict and prepare for unseen threats through the act of object-making.