August 31st 2020
We meet for a tea gathering. The last tea gathering of summer.
Only one host, one guest, one calligraphy.
Thick Artemisia is prepared. Like thick tea but using the leaves of artemisia princeps. The taste is strong, round and powerful as a grounded fresh root with high pitched incense-like notes in the background.
Matching with this earthy taste came iranian sweets of light rose and berry taste.
The tea bowl was made by Kimura Moriyasu. The specialist of Tenmoku tea bowls now creates child-like shapes with a glaze as soft as moss.
The pouch of the cha-ire was designed by Studio Shifuku. Its string references embers on charcoal.
The board under the kettle is made of mycelium. More are being made now. Growing my own furniture is an act of independance as well an act of aesthetic. Mycelium, as I mentioned previously, is not a material made to replace plastic but to find its own place in our world. I gladly welcome it in the tea room as it makes my aesthetic evolve along with its own growing rythme.
Finally, the calligraphy of the day — The Noble Man.
Nessim Cohen 
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