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i love ai weiwei.  i love the story of the sunflowers being used for his turbine hall installation even better. cannot wait to go and visit this one.  jayparkinsonmd: At first sight Ai Weiwei’s installation “Sunflower Seeds” presents us with an undifferentiated field of grey, filling the space between the bridge and the end wall of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. It is almost disappointing… But you can trudge over all 100 million of them, walk or skip or dance on these seeds, all of them Made in China. Or scoop up handfuls and let them run through your fingers, in the knowledge that someone, an old lady or a small-town teenager in Jingdezhen, has delicately picked up each one and anointed it with a small brush. Every seed is painted by hand. The town that once made porcelain for the imperial court has been saved from bankruptcy by making sunflower seeds. It is absurd. Ai Weiwei is surely one of the great artists of our day. 

i love ai weiwei. 

i love the story of the sunflowers being used for his turbine hall installation even better. cannot wait to go and visit this one. 

jayparkinsonmd:

At first sight Ai Weiwei’s installation “Sunflower Seeds” presents us with an undifferentiated field of grey, filling the space between the bridge and the end wall of Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. It is almost disappointing…

But you can trudge over all 100 million of them, walk or skip or dance on these seeds, all of them Made in China. Or scoop up handfuls and let them run through your fingers, in the knowledge that someone, an old lady or a small-town teenager in Jingdezhen, has delicately picked up each one and anointed it with a small brush. Every seed is painted by hand. The town that once made porcelain for the imperial court has been saved from bankruptcy by making sunflower seeds. It is absurd.

Ai Weiwei is surely one of the great artists of our day. 

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    seen this. it was cool except mostly disappointing because they’ve roped off the floor space so you can only look at it....
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    Except people became dangerously ill from the dust it made. I don’t think you can touch them anymore.
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