Ai Weiwei sunflower seeds

The Guardian, Monday 5 March 2012 Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist that has become very famous because of his troubles with his native country, aiming to his work.He was in house arrest for tax evation, but the real reason for it is that he often talks about human rigts and he critizice the totalitarism of China. One of his most interesting works, in my view, was an instalation of 100.000.000 hand-made seeds of sunflowers in the Tate Museum. One of each seed was made out of porcelain by Chinese craft workers, painted one by one just equially as the real ones, in a town where ceramics represents their tradition, generation by generation the families had been working on the creations of ceramics. As well the sunflower seeds are very important in China, they use it as a base of their feeding, and was the diary diet in times of war. His work represents the overpopulation and workforce of the people of China. Reciently, the Tate Museum baught 8.000.000 (10 tons) of these seeds , at £3.50 each seed, just the 10th of the total. In the begginig the instalation creates a sea of seeds, where the spectators can lie, thow them up, and dive their feet in, but the quiantity that the Tate buys was not enaugh to do that, so they decided to pile up them in a cone shape.