Collection 03
Dialog of
Two voices, left unresolved.
A dialog is two things put in the same piece and left to disagree — roasted depth against acidity, bitter against bright, shadow against light. Ingredients or ideas; the rule is the same. We do not round the edges between them or find a third thing to mediate.
Dialog of Dark & Orange
One
Dark chocolate
Bitter, dry, and slow to leave.
Other
Blood orange
Sharp, bright, and gone almost at once.
72% chocolate against whole-confit blood orange. Neither one softened.
Dialog of Smoke & Honey
One
Lapsang souchong
Tarry, dry, faintly medicinal.
Other
Chestnut honey
Dark, bitter-sweet, and heavy.
Smoked tea and chestnut honey, held a very short distance apart.