Chinese tea · one paused frame
Every tea is a frame paused mid-play
Thirty-four Chinese teas shown as a paused player: a rounded frame, a red play button over a macro close-up, a progress bar and two timecodes.
Chinese tea · one paused frame
Thirty-four Chinese teas shown as a paused player: a rounded frame, a red play button over a macro close-up, a progress bar and two timecodes.
3 teas · 3 categories
A player frame makes one promise that tea can actually keep: it announces a duration. The timecodes here are read as steep times, so the only number on the page is the one a person needs at the kettle. Macro focus is the other half of the argument — at this distance you see the fold in a Longjing blade and the resin gloss on a broken chagao, which a flat catalogue shot flattens away. The frame is paused on purpose: nothing plays by itself, nothing moves until it is asked to, and there is no sound anywhere in the shop. The dark panel exists so the leaf is the brightest thing on the screen, and the channel furniture — avatar, tick, counts — is kept at interface size because a view count is not a quality. One red mark is the whole palette, and it never lands on the tea.