The first experiment I conducted was to cover every thing that needed to be accessed in paper so that in order to get to it the paper needed to be broken. This was supposed to alter the mood of making tea to a more rebellious mood, as the breaking of the paper would require a violent movement and the breaking of the paper would make a noise that I hoped would induce a feeling of rebelliousness. My belief was that rebellion is the breaking down of social constructs in order to create a new one. While the action when I myself broke the paper seal was rebellious in feeling the noise produced was not as impressive as I thought it would be making a soft rip noise instead of a loud popping sound. The aesthetic of the broken seal looked interesting but I would not say it invoked a mood of rebellion.
The second experiment was to pack up all the ingredients in individual packets and throw them into the pot from a distance. This was to invoke a feeling of rebellion, through the action of throwing something. Many of the images I associate with rebellion are of people throwing rocks or other things and I wanted to recreate that feeling.
The final experiment was to chill all objects that are touched during the process of making tea. The mood I was trying to convey from this was of austerity. Cold, I believed was associated with austerity as the cold saps energy and is associated with winter, the season which is the most austere due to the fact it is when most plants loose their greenery and some mammals hibernate, it is a time of little food and bare landscapes.
The coldness did give make the process of making tea a less comforting experience and, due to the fact I had to make the tea with cold water to stop the cup from breaking, made a tea that was extremely weak and the sugar did not dissolve in. While the end product cold be considered austere I would not say the process made me feel austerity to any great measure, it really just made it a less comfortable one.
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