Thinking of ambergris as something that was be consumed but was difficult to digest. Salstrom took consumables in his life that might also be difficult to digest: the news (newspaper), fast food, carbonized meat and fat, chicken bones, and embedded them into molten glass to make blubbery mounds. The works are elevated to varying degrees, as if they are floating. This is in reference to the valuable ambergris often nicknamed “Floating Gold”.