Lu

9 out of 12 pieces made for my AP Studio Art Concentration

"For this series I chose to focus on tea’s connotations in a variety of settings, considering it in perspectives of culture, history and folklore. How has a traditional drink been altered by commercialization? How does it still function as a form of art today? By breaking down generic representations of tea I hoped to acknowledge how a singular object transforms itself in unexpected ways and to highlight how truly unique something that appears commonplace can be."

 Guys, I love tea. So much so that I decided to turn it into a metaphor with lots of big words to jazz it up. Sure it’s silly, but to me nothing says more about people than how many different emotions you can feel sipping the same drink. 

We have the ability to give hot leaf juice a personality, and that’s pretty damn cool, don’t you think?

Chai - Colored Pencil 

Lavender - Oil on Canvas

Mad Hatter - Pen and Ink, Watercolor

Lanterns- Oil on Wood

Hibiscus - Colored Pencil

Caffeine Crammer - Collage, Pastels on Wood

Genie - Acrylic on Wood

Modern Matcha - Pen and Ink, Watercolor