Map of Mornings: Tea Tinjas

Irish Breakfast tea on paper on birch panel, sealed with cold wax
47” x 31” x2”

This piece maps six weeks of daily life through tea tinajas. "Tinajas" are natural rock depressions that collect rainwater in arid landscapes; they sustain life and mark time as they slowly evaporate. My morning tea ritual mirrors this process: a quiet, sustaining practice embedded in life. Each tea tinaja is formed from black tea dripped from a teabag from my morning cup. As the tea dries, it transforms into a timestamp. Accumulating day by day, these marks ask: How will you choose to live today? What will you accumulate through this life?

My abstract, mixed-media practice invites connection to self, family, community, and ecology of place. The work is an invitation to slow down, notice, reflect, and be present. Working with what surrounds me, I experiment, embrace chance and collaborate with materials, sites, and natural elements. My process unfolds as fieldwork traversing inner and outer ecologies. Archaeology of place, seasonality, and time inform an ongoing inquiry into belonging, interdependence, and care.