I'll post some photos of our flat in London soon, but we've been doing some redecorating, so it'll have to wait until after that.
In the meantime, here are a few shots of Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds installation, recently on display at the Tate Modern and now in New York at the Mary Boone Gallery. It was amazing.
From far, the installation looks a huge pile of sunflower seeds—which is apparently one of China's most prized exports—but up close, each and every single seed in the 5-ton pile was hand-painted and hand-crafted from porcelain by specialists in China. According to the installation notes:
"This combination of mass production and traditional craftsmanship invites us to look more closely at the 'Made in China' phenomenon, and the geopolitics of cultural and economic exchange."
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