Teascarf Brooklyn
Nearly 20 years ago, I began a project to discover what kind of tea bag makes the best print, and what I could do to the tea bag as it dried to make the print more intense. I spent weeks carefully placing and arranging tea bags on various pieces of paper around my studio as they dried.
Some tea bags dry and completely stick to the paper so they need to be peeled off. Others don't.
After the tea bags have been removed from the paper, I can finally see the image. I flatten the warped paper with a hot iron, clean most of the bits of tea bag from the paper, then photograph the artwork to ensure an accurate reproduction.