The Space Breathes Back is an interactive installation that reimagines tea ritual as a multispecies encounter. Drawing on tea culture, plant sensing and material experimentation, the work brings together handmade glass tea objects, wood, tea-dyed textiles, jute, living plants, sound and responsive technology. Plant bio-signals are translated into sound, while a presence sensor changes the soundscape as visitors enter and leave the space. Rather than treating plants as decoration, the installation asks how ritual might become a way of attending to other forms of presence, agency and communication, creating an intimate environment shaped by human, plant and material participants.
