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100 million hand crafted sunflower seeds as sculpture?
I came a cross this article here as ´tate carpeted with sun flower seeds´
http://news.sky.com/s...hinese_Artist_Ai_Weiwei by Ai Weiwei a Chinese artist.
When I was thinking ´what a peculiar thing to do´ and I read another article:
http://www.bloomberg.co..00-million-seeds-review.html
"Sunflower Seeds,"
..The work consists of 100 million little monochrome porcelain replicas of sunflower seed husks. This humble item carries strong associations for Ai. The sunflower seed is a popular Chinese snack. During the Cultural Revolution of 1966- 76, Chairman Mao Zedong was represented as the Sun with the Chinese people as sunflowers turning their faces toward him.
The Cultural Revolution holds terrible memories for Ai, 53. His father, Ai Qing (1910-1996), a celebrated poet, was exiled to a remote village and condemned to hard labor.
..used one of most significant materials of the old China: porcelain. Each of the ceramic sunflower shells was hand-painted and crafted by workers at a factory ..
It took two years to manufacture this quantity of tiny porcelain seed-pods. Altogether they weigh 150 metric tonnes. They crunch under your feet like gravel, and visitor’s footsteps form them into an undulating miniature landscape, like a desert seen from the air.
If you pick up a few, you discover that each is minutely different. The pattern of black and white stripes is always slightly varied, just as each individual human being is unique, though in a crowd, from a distance they can seem much the same.
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Respect!!!!!
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This so reminds me of someone saying "is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me".
Celery Forest
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