Salt Lake City gets its largest piece of public art, "Pages of Salt," seven stories high and costing $2.2 million.

Salt Lake City officials welcomed the city’s biggest piece of public art — and, at a cost of $2.2 million, its most expensive.

“Pages of Salt,” a seven-story installation of stainless steel rods and teflon sheets, has been installed on the north wall of the Walker Center parking garage, overlooking the McCarthey Plaza along Regent Street in downtown Salt Lake City. The 336 teflon panels are designed to evoke the newspapers that used to be printed on that street (when the presses for The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News were there), and to ripple in the wind like the waters of the Great Salt Lake.

Here’s my story about the city’s welcoming party for the new artwork, on sltrib.com.