Chinese tea · one circle, one rule
A circle of leaf, drained of its colour
Thirty-four Chinese teas shot flat from above, held inside a drawn or brushed ring, with the names set in serif capitals spaced wide enough to slow you down.
Chinese tea · one circle, one rule
Thirty-four Chinese teas shot flat from above, held inside a drawn or brushed ring, with the names set in serif capitals spaced wide enough to slow you down.
3 teas · 2 categories
Draining the colour is a test. A tea that still looks like something in grey is a tea whose shape, curl and grade are doing the work, and a tea that falls apart in grey was relying on being brown. The circle is how tea is actually judged in a tasting room, spread flat in a shallow dish and read from directly above. Setting the name in wide capitals gives each tea the same amount of page regardless of price, so the cheap green and the aged dark get the same weight. The ink ring is drawn by hand and never closes cleanly, which keeps a printed page from turning into a diagram. What is left is paper, one circle and one line, and everything in the frame is the tea.