I have an ongoing fascination with and engagement in the health benefits and social service of tea across cultures, which manifests as a tea curator and server in various spaces.
Since 2014 I have camped at Burning Man with Camp Soft Landing, a traditional Chinese tea service offered in a quiet comfortable space that facilitates conversations between visionary travelers in the midst of playa chaos.
I was a co-lead on the 2015 Pex Tea Lab at the Pex Summer Fest, a three day experimental art and music festival in Maryland. We ran a 24/7 tea service with a mid-century modernist laboratory theme, as per the geodesic dome. This was an amazing summer project, but ultimately an enormous build for a small three day festival.
After this I decided to go travel light with the pop up Wayward Teatime basket, a traveling picnic basic with traditional tea service for eight, which I do pop up when I can at events, actions, and among friends.
Here’s the project: Wayward Teatime FB page. Invite me to your party if you’d like tea time!