Repurposing the dried tea bags accumulated from the interactive installation Tea House into material Jean Shin and Brian Ripel collaborated to construct an inverted string model of the Museum’s building, Castles in the Air. Inspired by the hanging chain models of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí, the intricate web of strings and tea bags produces an inverted ghostly architecture illustrating the structural forces responding to gravity. The Museum’s founder Julian de Cordova sought to create a worldly escape from his New England reality by dressing his hilltop estate in the exotic architectural trimmings of Europe. By replacing Gaudí’s weighted pellet bags with tea bags, the artists consider the role of tea in the Museum’s history, its historic, economic, and symbolic import in the Boston area, as well as its long tradition as a material bridge between cultures.