Thereis no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of
tea.’
I have always been inspired by fabrics, thetexture and the idea that you want to touch and interact with the piece is whatinspires me the most. I came across the fabric tea bags working in John Lewis; I thought they looked so delicate and dainty that I wanted to experiment further with the object. I began with the photographs, the photographs are abstract close ups of the tea bag fabric, I liked the effect the abstract quality the idea that you don’t quite know what it is. From this I began to interact with the teabags more embroidering and sewing making them more personal for anyone that interacts with the object. It’s no longer just a teabag, it’s a message; words that everyone can relate to, words that crop up on everyone’s daily routine, everyone’s daily tea/coffee break.

The words within them and embroidered on to the tea bags comes from my research into the idea of what people discuss over a tea or coffee break. From listening into different conversations and analysing my own, I have heard some funny, ridiculous and quite intense things. From this I began to encase the words within the teabags as a metaphor for conversation or a conversation that has happened. The fabric pieces if the abstract faces represent expressions I have observed for my research, the expressions are from memory which is what makes them somewhat abstract and dreamlike; they represent the conversations that I have listened to and had myself, that are now just a distant memory and a thing of the past, some stick out more than others and some are very vague. But they still happened and are still happening now, as I type this, all around me. We are always surrounded by the presence of Human Beings.