{"id":83495,"date":"2015-02-05T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/?p=83495"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T15:02:57","slug":"ein-portait-aus-20-000-teebeuteln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kraftfuttermischwerk.de\/blogg\/ein-portait-aus-20-000-teebeuteln\/","title":{"rendered":"Ein Portr\u00e4t aus 20.000 Teebeuteln"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ich mag Teebeutel nicht sonderlich. Ich mag Tee lieber lose. Die in Malaysia lebende K\u00fcnstlerin Red Hongyi<\/a> hingegen mag Teebeutel ganz gerne. Ob sie Tee von diesen trinkt, wei\u00df ich nicht genau, aber sie macht Bilder damit. So wie dieses hier, wof\u00fcr sie 20.000 Teebeutel benutzte.<\/p>\n

I used 20,000 teabags to illustrate a man preparing teh tarik in the background, with soft drink cans and an ice-kacang (shaved ice) machine as props in front of him hung in the foreground. The piece was 3.2×2.2meters…and weighed 200kgs! The teabags are stained in 10 different shades of brown. The teabags were stained by steeping the bags in hot water – the lesser and hotter the water, the more they were stained – and the darker tones were stained with brown food dye. All these bags were stapled and attached onto tiles of wiremesh, then hung off a wooden frame. I spent about two months planning, sourcing, creating and filming this piece. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n