Meeting for Teas: Japan

Created during a five week residency at the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Alberta, Canada, August/September 2023.

Each print is comprised of four or five layers: terrain/topography; vegetation; fauna; human culture; tea culture; and each print represents/pays homage to one national culture involved in the propagation of tea culture in Canada. Three prints (UK, India and Switzerland) include site specific elements of the large (14 metre) wall drawing, of the Rockies « Drawing the Mountains » created with silver tape on the wall at Banff Art Centre. The line passes through these three prints as a compositional element. Each print also has a dedicated soundtrack, accessed through a QR code adjacent to the image.

For Japan, the image includes an image of Japanese tea Master and tea ceremony paraphernalia, Cherry blossom.