How to combine table salt into large salt blocks and allow it has high hardness, this problem has become my main exploration goal at present.
In the past, I used super glue to combine them. Salt slices like that are very fragile, not as good as I expected. So I started using another method.
Mixed the salt with water and placed it at the bottom of the bowl. After a few days, the salt to be crystal. The disadvantage of this sample is that it is brittle and difficult to shape.
After that, I found new method. Putting the salt into the mold and heating them by microwave, which can get a salt crystal with high hardness and can be sculpted. The interesting point is that when I show this cube to other peoples, most people would ask ” is it sugar?” Why do people pay a lot more attention on sugar than salt? How many people know about the beauty of salt? A lot of questions are starting to appear in my mind.
“Is it sugar? “I started thinking about this problem from the audience, and I decided to develop it in two directions：
1. Creating misunderstandings. Using salt to make unexpected objects, and tell audiences the real material which can amplify the contrast.
2. Highlight the characteristics and texture of salt as a material, so that the viewer can intuitively feel the beauty of salt.
I started using salt to make bigger objects which relate to human’s daily life. I chose the image of the coffee cup. because when I walked on the streets of London, I found that almost all of people have a cup of coffee . If everyone take a coffee cup which made by salt? This situation is quite interesting. So I used silicone to make a cup mould, added salt into it, then heated.
Through this experiment, I decided to use salt to make more people’s daily life objects, and to find some better ways to crystalize salt.
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