After years of drinking tea and studying tea ceremony, I finally decided to produce some textiles to support this daily ritual. It has always been important to me to use available materials: plant dyes, reclaimed fabrics, thrift store pots and pans for production.

Though I experimented with extracting dyes, measuring quantities, and taking detailed notes, I quickly realized that reproducibility was not important to me. What captivated me about the process was the movement of water in the dye pot, unexpected impressions of leaves, and the continual surprises of color chemistry. Each piece is a record of its making: the color is color on a canvas, a piece of art, but it is also a notebook of temperature, time, concentration, clips, strings… the entire process itself frozen in fabric.