Chinese tea · scan, lot number, redaction
Filed, scanned, partly redacted
Thirty-four Chinese teas kept as archive scans — lowercase mono captions, crop marks, a lot number and a barcode, with one line of the record blacked out.
Chinese tea · scan, lot number, redaction
Thirty-four Chinese teas kept as archive scans — lowercase mono captions, crop marks, a lot number and a barcode, with one line of the record blacked out.
7 teas · 5 categories
Nothing here is set larger than a caption, which is the whole argument: the material is the loudest thing in the frame and the type stays down at record level. Lowercase mono with open tracking reads as a machine wrote it, so the page feels found rather than art directed, and a found page invites a closer look than an advertisement does. The metadata is the part worth keeping — county, altitude, batch, oxidation, roast, grade — because those are the six facts that actually change what is in the cup, and they belong in the frame with the leaf rather than three clicks away. The redaction bar and the do not distribute stamp are the joke and the honesty at once: an archive implies something withheld, and this study withholds nothing except a line of internal reference. Shooting each tea from straight above as a single circle keeps the whole set comparable, which is what an archive is for. On white the same record becomes a shelf label, and only the crop marks survive.