Using What I Have

This is a brick of green tea.

Centuries ago the Chinese pressed dust from tea into bricks to use as tea money for trading with Mongolia and Tibet.

Someone gave it to me a few years ago and I am sure it isn't fresh any more.

It's so lovely and I think about her every time I open the cupboard. I don't want to throw it out.

I made some rubbings from it.

Photograph I took in downtown Toronto

Tea.

Cotton and Pastels

You may remember from an earlier post that I look for interesting reliefs where ever I go.

I found a few in Paris...

My children said I gathered quite a crowd as I made my rubbings!

I plan to make a journal with these pieces of cotton fabric. It will be a sample for the class I am teaching next July in Sulmona, Italy.