During my tea time, I found out that my mind and heart were never settled completely. There were more questions, hope, and emotions that flourished from every sip of it. I then started collecting every empty tea bags I consumed, since they represented every chaotic scene that happened throughout my tea times.

In the end of June, I had collected a lot of empty tea bags, and I explored any method I could use to turn these things into artwork. Eventually, they look so pretty with letters typed on top of them. Then I made a story about the organized chaos inside my mind during those times, and typed it into the bags.

The tea bags won’t look proper without a nice packaging. Using my passion in design and illustration, I tried my best to make a box that fits well. Honestly, designing the box was a challenging part! I even had to make two dummies of it before printed the real one, and they both didn’t even end well.

When the experiment with dummies had done, to make this precious artwork even more priceless, I decided to print only one set of the real packaging. I love the fact that it’s the one and only piece in this world. However, I also understood that there was no room for failure during the final phase, and it made me pretty anxious!

Another problem popped out. The box design became too dominant, and I needed to find a way to make the tea bags and its box look balanced together.

Sewing turned out to be the answer, and doing it to the tea bags wasn’t easy. They’re so fragile that I kept breaking the bags and tangling the strings. In the end of sewing process, I realized this one sweet fact; fragility had become part of this artwork since the very beginning.

When both of the printed box and the tea bags were ready, I carefully arranged them into their final form, and in that moment I was so sure that I was able to feel the kind of satisfaction I’d been longing for ☺