Chinese tea · green pixels on a small screen
The tea drawn on a monochrome screen
Thirty-four Chinese teas photographed inside a phone-screen frame, with the steam and the snake built from green pixels and the signal bars standing in for strength.
Chinese tea · green pixels on a small screen
Thirty-four Chinese teas photographed inside a phone-screen frame, with the steam and the snake built from green pixels and the signal bars standing in for strength.
3 teas · 3 categories
Every drawn element sits on a grid of square pixels, because a low-resolution screen can only say a few things and has to choose which. The steam, the snake and the leaf silhouette are all built from the same green cells, so the drawn layer never tries to compete with the photograph in detail. The photograph itself is left sharp and unfiltered, and that is the contrast the whole shop runs on: a real leaf against a drawing that admits it is a drawing. Chinese tea suits it because most of what a buyer needs is small and countable — region, class, harvest, five bars of strength — and a status bar shows a scale without pretending to be a promise. The two hands passing a teacup replace a handshake and are the only curves on the page. The frame has soft corners and a dotted edge so the sheet reads as one screen rather than as a poster inside a border.