Tea with Miss Havisham

A rem­nant of ​“wall­pa­per” made from used tea bags and flocked with used tea leaves is the back­drop for a wire ​“chan­de­lier” that echoes the beau­ti­ful­ly despair­ing decay of Charles Dick­ens’ trag­ic Miss Hav­isham. This piece asks the view­er to tran­scend pos­si­ble feel­ings of aver­sion in order to embrace the appeal of things that come to us in a worn and imper­fect state.

Leonard Koren writes that, ​“Beau­ty can spon­ta­neous­ly occur at any moment giv­en the prop­er cir­cum­stances, con­text, or point of view. Beau­ty is thus an altered state of con­scious­ness, an extra­or­di­nary moment of poet­ry and grace.”