Salt and Pepper Project

My previous project was to produce a salt and pepper container. I looked into the different types of salt and pepper pots such as, grinders, mills, shakers and ended up looking into salt and pepper pigs/pots. Known as a 'Salt Pig' i combined this concept with salt and pepper pot and produced this final piece above. I looked into the forms of grinded salt and dried pepper corns, simplified the forms and created these two contrasting shapes which i really love. They were made using a kiln forming process called Pate de Verre (Paste of Glass) which i either very fine glass powder or glass pieces mixed with a bonder (wall paper paste) and packed to the walls of a mould. I really enjoyed this process and found it so interesting that it creates this sugary crystal line texture to the surface.