Cezary Bodzianowski (*1966, Szczecin, Poland, now based in Łódź) has been using tea bags as a sculptural material since the early 1990s. This practice developed alongside his performances. He takes these fragile, stained objects—things which most people toss aside without a second thought—and turns them into carefully crafted poetic pieces. Most of his work is performance. He stages small, peculiar scenes and short, absurd stories, describing his approach as a “personal theater of events.” His actions in public and private spaces celebrate moments when nothing is produced or achieved. He resists the pressure to always be useful. Once a tea has given its flavor and color to the water, the bag is drained and discarded. For the artist, the tea bag is a metaphor for the exhaustion in precarious creative work. But when these used bags are put together in compositions, they refuse to be thrown away. They become a record of time spent not working, a moment of rest, the pause that daily life both demands and denies.