Chinese tea · concrete, ash, bone
The tea set on a slab of ash
Thirty-four Chinese teas photographed on raw concrete under one hard side light, with the name cut into the surface in tall condensed capitals and dust for decoration.
Chinese tea · concrete, ash, bone
Thirty-four Chinese teas photographed on raw concrete under one hard side light, with the name cut into the surface in tall condensed capitals and dust for decoration.
7 teas · 5 categories
The shop has one surface and one light: a slab of raw concrete and a single hard source from the side. Colour is stripped down to ash, bone and the rust of a wet edge, so the only real colour on the page belongs to the leaf. The letters are condensed until they stretch and are worn into the surface rather than laid on top of it, which makes the name behave like something cast instead of something printed. Chinese tea holds up here because dark leaf on grey stone is an actual contrast and not a filter — charcoal-roasted Wuyi oolong and pressed pu-erh are made with fire, stone and time. Everything that looks decorative is dust: cracks, drape folds, a drift of smoke, all of it photographed and none of it drawn. The layout runs as a vertical column because a slab is taller than it is wide, and a column pulls the reader down to the leaf waiting at the bottom.