As warned I'm in the retro-post mood. So this is what happened one year ago: I walked around the Southbank*, visited the Tate Modern and had several trouble with the focus of my camera (yes, even before I started drinking).


* In the webpage you can see right now the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela playing in the Southbank Centre this past Saturday. It is truly beautiful, worth having a look.

Moi

Aujourd'hui en France.

Foux da fa fa.

Four looks at Ai Weiwei

Photo taken at the Tate Modern.
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In words of Juliet Bingham, museum's curator: "Ai Weiwei's Unilever Series commission, Sunflower Seeds, is a beautiful, poignant and thought-provoking sculpture. The thinking behind the work lies in far more than just the idea of walking on it. The precious nature of the material, the effort of production and the narrative and personal content create a powerful commentary on the human condition. Sunflower Seeds is a vast sculpture that visitors can contemplate at close range on Level 1 or look upon from the Turbine Hall bridge above. Each piece is a part of the whole, a commentary on the relationship between the individual and the masses. The work continues to pose challenging questions: What does it mean to be an individual in today's society? Are we insignificant or powerless unless we act together? What do our increasing desires, materialism and number mean for society, the environment and the future?"

News of Weiwei release from prison by The Guardian here.