While cleaning the house, my mom took down just such a "jug." To my surprise, inside were wine corks. It turned out they'd been stored there for several years. I was intrigued by the smell of all those corks, but also by the fact that I didn't even know I had something like that in my house. It's there, but it's not there.
I decided that wine corks would be the subject of my next project.
PART I
First photos of wine corks.
PART II
PART III


PART IV
PART V
PART VI
PART VII