A tea vessel is often identified through a familiar set of formal cues. These cues allow the object to be recognized and named before its use is considered.

In this object, those cues are reduced or displaced. While the conventional markers that signal a tea vessel are no longer clearly present, the object continues to function through use.

Recognition does not begin with appearance, but unfolds through handling and pouring. The form does not settle into a single, immediately legible identity.Rather than relying on a fixed silhouette to define the object, Silhouette considers how use can become the starting point for recognition-how an object is understood not by what it looks like, but by how it functions.