Chinese tea · measured in millimetres
Thirty-four Chinese teas photographed flat on concrete board and then dimensioned — height, width, moisture, elevation — the way a material sample is logged before anyone decides what to build with it.
3 teas · 3 categories
The language here treats a product as an unfinished material rather than a finished object — surfaces are left raw, and the only decoration is the notation used to describe them. That suits Chinese tea because tea is genuinely specified before it is enjoyed: cultivar, elevation, roast, oxidation, residual moisture, the year of the pressing. A dimension arrow across a cake of pu-erh paste is not a joke, it is close to how the trade actually talks. Safety orange does the work a highlighter does on a drawing — it points, it does not sell. The concrete tone keeps the leaf as the only warm thing in the frame, so colour becomes information about the tea rather than about the layout. Stencil type belongs on crates and walls, which is where tea has always travelled.