Tea Nest
Cheng Tsung FENG
PROJECT DESIGNER
Xin Jun Liu
ORGANIZER
Hakka Affairs Council
IMPLEMENTER
International Culture And Tourism Bureau, Miaoli County
CO ORGANIZER
Miaoli County Dahu Township Office, Dawo Cultural Ecological Association
PARTNER
Yumu Manufacture & Research
WOODEN STRUCTURE
Yu Cheng Shen, Shi Jiun Wang
ARTIST
Cheng Tsung Feng
PHOTOGRAPHS
Yu Cheng Shen
AREA
13 M²
YEAR
2019
LOCATION
Miaoli, Taiwan (Roc)
CATEGORY
Installation
Text description provided by architect.
Artist Cheng Tsung FENG turned this traditional craft into installation artwork, Tea Nest.
Weaving with more rice straws, make it as big as a house size for welcoming people go interior.
Based on the Teapot Nest meaning,Lasting Warming, this artwork invite people to come inside and sit around like bathing in a cup of hot tea.
With the smelling of rice, bring you back to the nature life in agrarian Taiwan society in 1970s.
Cha Shou(茶壽), a heat preservation tea set for teapot, made with rice straws and stuffed with cotton fabric inside and originated from WenShui area in Miaoli.
These containers were much important to the Hakka people in past. Hakka farmers can take a rest and have pots of warm tea after they finished the farm work in the afternoon.
