Sunflower Seeds was created by Ali Weiwei in 2010 in the Tate Modern. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. It is quite remarkable how many of these there are and it is avery interesting piece. People were allowed to walk on them but it got shut down because the dust it created was unhealthy. I hope it opens back up because there was a lot of work that went into it, and it is maybe something that I would like to visit myself one day.
No comments:
Post a Comment