Chinese tea · swatches, pins, handwriting
Each tea read as a colour palette
Thirty-four Chinese teas pinned to a forecast board — leaf on one side, painted chips and codes on the other, with the reasoning written in by hand.
Chinese tea · swatches, pins, handwriting
Thirty-four Chinese teas pinned to a forecast board — leaf on one side, painted chips and codes on the other, with the reasoning written in by hand.
3 teas · 3 categories
A forecast board is a page that admits it is thinking, and that is the format borrowed here: torn edges, pins, chips, and arrows drawn from a colour back to the thing it came from. Handwriting stays in because the annotation is the argument — without it a row of swatches is just a row of swatches. Each tea is treated as a source of colour rather than a product shot, so the palette is pulled from the dry leaf and then from the liquor, which are rarely the same. That is a fair thing to do with Chinese tea specifically: pan-fired green gives jade and chestnut, ripe pu-erh gives mahogany and near-black, white tea gives silver and straw. Chips carry codes so the claim can be checked instead of admired. The one bold element on the board is the season name, and everything under it is evidence.