As I'm still drinking the tea every morning, I continue to utilize it as a source material.

In these recent pieces, tea is not so much the subject matter, as it is a material of choice, though still meaningful symbolically.

This is a sampling of some finished pieces, some studies, and some works in which tea bags just happened to be a good material to transfer a drawing. The waxed tea bag in the "New Home" series takes on a physicality that I really enjoy. "Conjuring Great Aunt Someone" is a reincarnation of the 2003 installation "Tea Secrets".

I'm edging closer a series of still-lifes using the process of printing a photographic image onto a tea bag, adhering it to a canvas, and then drawing/painting into the image. Some studies in perfecting this process, which began with "Grace Remembered", are featured here. It's satisfying to return to a photographic image, but also have a process full of potential in drawing and texture experimentation.

Patience, patience.