When it comes to her art, Ruby Silvious knows no bounds. Her work can be seen painted on a variety of surfaces. Those include anything from broken eggshells to wine corks. “I take everyday objects and turn them into canvases for art,” she once remarked in an interview with wmht. “It’s as simple as that.”\n\n\n\n
But it’s her miniature paintings and collages on used tea bags that turned this relatively unknown artist into a viral sensation. It all started on January 3, 2015, when she launched the 363 Days of Tea Project, a visual daily record of her impression of the moment, using the emptied-out tea bag as her canvas. Silvious kept her promise to herself and for the next 363 days, she altered teabags, creating a new work of art each and every day.\n\n\n\n