Last week I somewhere picked up something about an exhibition of/with millions of sunflower seeds in porcelain by
Ai WeiWei, which got my attention straight away. I found this great video on you-tube about the project.
I not only learned about the project and it's background, how sunflowers are part of China, but also saw a bit of how porcelain is found and made. It does not start live as mud or clay, but more something rock-like. And something I would never do is open the oven while red-hot because the temperature shock can make the fired pieces crack. I guess the seeds being so small and made of solid porcelain they can withstand this temperature change.
Anyway if you got 15 minutes to spare it's well worth viewing.
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I totally loved watching this! Thank you so much for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed every second and finished with goosebumps ! Happy to get to see this project,
ReplyDeleteit's wunderful