Teabag 12

Posting from the field

Teabag 11. My first post from iPhone

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One a day

Teabag 10.  Now we have added mica.  In the mid-90's - that would be the last century - I was in a workshop on 'play'.  By the end of the three days, I was writing on mica with gold ink - heresy for a mineralogist.  Now I love to do things with mica - drill it, sew it, write on it, and more things I have yet to discover.  Look closely and you will see a thin piece of muscovite sewn on with wool thread.

 Teabag #9.  This is the first three dimensional teabag.  It came folded out of the container in which it had been sitting for over 3 years.  A design professor once told me that putting a lot of something not-so-important together makes the collection into something worthy - maybe not in those exact words.  I find each one of these intriguing but not 'great art'.  Hopefully, something interesting will emerge as we reach teabag 659 or so! 

Back to it - yet againnnnnnnn.

Teabag 8. Obviously doing artwork with 1000 teabags will take much more than 1000 days - it has already been years.  But - I'm now installing each new tea bag in my living room over the hearth to keep me moving along.  This teabag is old so I can't remember when I drank the tea from it.  Nice dark color and using some new embroidery thread. 

Sigh...

Here it is, 2016, and I have only a few artworks made from teabags. Today I was working with faculty in the Department of Historic Preservation at the University of Kentucky. I offered my 'failed blogs' as an example of an easy form of media. So, yet again, I post one of the Project of a Thousand Tea Bags.

This one is a virgin tea bag. It has never experience hot water, steeped to make a cup of tea. I emptied the bag into a sieve to make tea for tomorrow. The color is wet on wet ink - purchased in Singapore and taken back to Boulder and on to Kentucky.  Life is so interesting and so intricate.

I had abandoned my teabags on the web. I have done new ones in a desultory way. This past week in Kalimantan, I met a woman who liked my teabags. Hmmmm. I need an art focus here in Singapore. Teabags are small. They are accessible to me in many ways. Hence, I am back in the teabag business. The leaf in this teabag came from my walk to the bus - the route I take each day in Singapore.