Slobodan Dan Paich followed a daily ritual of creating simple drawings with tea and ink. In response to the modern pace of the art scene, Slobodan had embraced these fluid works of art to express his searching approach.
Paich’s technique developed out of a desire to use tea to slow down and seize moments, drinking tea and drawing with it to produce small meditations on the creative process.
The tea and ink drawings are like inconclusive, open-ended poetic oracles, like butterflies of imagination they flutter in, touch something or not and then flutter away. Each drawing has an evocative, imaginative title. The titles, which arrive at the end of the process, and the images roam large domains of cultural memory and real or imaginary geography.
"I drink this beautiful Chinese pu-erh tea.
The element of slowing down…
The tea allows us to breath, to move."
In a hypnotic voice, the man speaks. And suddenly, a brush is dipped into the tea.
"The whole thing starts with a big splash of tea.
It's like some empty space inside a mountain."
