Sioltea is a fictional tea brand inspired by my step moms garden. I absolutely love a cup of tea and over time I have become more specific about my tea consumption based on research for my personal photography work. I’ve always been fascinated by zero waste living. Now I generally purchase loose leaf tea and attempt to recycle the cardboard box, but before that most of my tea consumption before that came in tea bags or even glass/plastic bottles. My goal for Sioltea was to begin thinking of ways we could still enjoy products without the concern of being wasteful by focusing on something I personally had put a lot of thought into, tea.

I hand built the boxes after engraving them with a decorative laser cut design to form a pleasant planter pot. This way they could be used until they began to decay, which as a natural material, wood would eventually do if exposed to the elements. This way once the plant was ready to be moved into the garden, the box could be used for other plants or be allowed to decay.