Ai Weiwei

ai weiwei

Chinese artist and architect (among other things; extremely talented man), who is an advocate for democracy in China.

While this image is lovely, it's irrelevant.

broken pots, broken dreams

ai weiwei did a body of work called 'broken pots, broken dreams', where ai weiwei painted on different pots and then smashed them to pieces in order to 'save humanity'. an example of this is a pot from the Han dynasty that he painted the Coca Cola logo on, which (moreorless) made the pot worthless and was used as a metaphor for humanity.

other pots he dropped (mostly from the Han dynasty) which was mostly to make a statement along the lines of 'youll destroy it anyway, i'll save you from yourself'.

lovely. (this body was called 'dropping the urn')

i think i like ai weiwei, but i cannot find many pictures that i can paste here (theyre all in little slides on websites), but im sure you've seen it all. i like him a lot.