Chinese tea · grid, arc, two red squares
The grid decides where the leaf lands
Thirty-four Chinese teas set into a Swiss grid, each one wrapped by a construction of arcs or rotated squares and held down by two small red marks.
Chinese tea · grid, arc, two red squares
Thirty-four Chinese teas set into a Swiss grid, each one wrapped by a construction of arcs or rotated squares and held down by two small red marks.
34 teas · 7 categories
The grid is not hidden here, it is the subject — every position is derived rather than chosen, and the drawing that produced the layout stays on the page. Chinese tea suits that method because it is already organised by system: seven categories defined by how the leaf is processed, not by flavour or fashion. A construction of arcs or rotating squares reads as movement without any animation, which is a useful way to show something as static as a pile of dry leaf. Red appears twice at most, always as a marker for the eye rather than as decoration. The photograph is always circular and always centred on an axis, so thirty-four different teas can be compared without the layout arguing with any of them. Set on a shirt, the same grid simply continues around the body.