Chinese tea · spliced, half and half
Two halves that were never one garment
Thirty-four Chinese teas cut down the middle — photograph on one side, pleats and spliced fabric panels on the other, with the name sliced by whatever passes in front of it.
Chinese tea · spliced, half and half
Thirty-four Chinese teas cut down the middle — photograph on one side, pleats and spliced fabric panels on the other, with the name sliced by whatever passes in front of it.
34 teas · 7 categories
The method is hybrid construction: take two finished things, cut them, and join them along a seam that is left visible rather than hidden. Nothing is blended, and the join is the point. Chinese tea is a fair subject for it because most of the categories are defined by an interruption — oxidation stopped part way, fermentation begun and then arrested, a green leaf pushed halfway to red and held there. Pleats give the same photograph two depths at once, so a flat pile of leaf gains a section view. Letting the panels cut through the letters means the word is read in pieces, which is how a spliced garment is read as you walk around it. The fabric swatches are photographed as material, not as clothing, so the two halves are compared honestly.